An elderly Hong Kongman died of bird flu on Christmas Day last year, the government said Tuesday it was the first human infection in the city in winter.
The Center for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health says a 75-year-old man, diagnosed with H7N9 strain, died Sunday.
Last week, Hong Kong was diagnosed with H7N9 recently after traveling to China for the first time this year.
South Korea and Japan earlier this week have ordered further exclusion to control the outbreak of different types of avian flu that has killed tens of millions of birds in the past month.
China has at least seven people infected with H7N9 this winter, two deaths.
Hong Kong, a former British colony, resumed Chinese rule in 1997 and since the outbreak of Avian Influenza, six outbreaks of avian flu have been reported in humans in the same year.
