China's Guangdong reports H7N9 case

GUANGZHOU - South China's Guangdong Province on Sunday reported a human case of H7N9 bird flu.

A 66-year-old man died on Dec. 3 in Meizhou City. He tested positive for the H7N9 virus on Saturday, Guangdong provincial health and family planning commission said in a statement.

This is the second human infection with H7N9 this winter in Guangdong. On Nov. 28, a 31-year-old woman from the city of Dongguan was confirmed with the virus. She remains in a critical condition at a hospital in the provincial capital of Guangzhou.