Two patients in eastern China who were confirmed as H7N9 cases days ago died on Tuesday, bringing the total number of H7N9 deaths in China to nine.
Two more people were confirmed infected with the H7N9 bird flu in Shanghai.By Saturday, China confirmed 18 H7N9 cases, killing six people.
Authorities in Shanghai said Thursday night that another person has died from H7N9 bird flu, bringing the death toll from the new deadly strain to five around the country.
No bird flu virus was found in dead pig samples from a river that provides drinking water to residents in Shanghai where two died in the first human infections of a new avian influenza strain, authorities said Monday.
More than a hundred people have infected norovirus at a hospital in Japan's Yokohama, municipal officials said Monday.