The 39-year-old bus driver living
in Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong
Kong, developed symptoms on Dec. 21 and was admitted to a hospital on Dec. 25 because of severe pneumonia, the official Xinhua news agency said.
He died in the early afternoon of multiple organ failure, having tested positive for the H5N1 virus, the report added.
He had no direct contact with poultry in the month prior to getting sick and had not left the city, Xinhua said.