Beijing: Two people in China's Anhui province have died from H7N9 bird flu, the first fatalities in China among this winter's cases, while Macau reported its first human infection of the strain since the former Portuguese colony returned to China in 1999.
Anhui has reported five cases of H7N9 avian flu since December 8, including the two people who died, the eastern province's health authority said in a statement, posted on its website on Wednesday .
It did not say whether the other three people had recovered or not.
The Anhui cases bring the total number of people infected with the H7N9 virus in mainland China this month to at least seven.
H7N9 had not been detected in either humans or animals in China until March 2013.
