A third man has died in China from a new strain of bird flu not previously known in humans.
The death, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, follows the death of two others in Shanghai in March.
A total of nine cases of the infection have now been reported across China, according to the Xinhua news agency.
It is unclear how the H7N9 strain is spread but the men in Shanghai did not infect each other or any close contacts, officials say.
A woman of 35 who caught the virus in the eastern province of Anhui is said to be critically ill.
According to China's National Health and Family Planning Commission, the men who died in Shanghai became ill with coughs and fevers before developing pneumonia.
Commission experts said on Saturday the cause had been identified as H7N9, a strain of avian flu not thought to have been transmitted to humans before.
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