According to government report on Thursday, the case is 80-year-old man infected with the H7N9. It is the first such death in the city after the virus surfaced in early December, CBS News reports.

The man, the second person in Hong Kong to be diagnosed with the virus strain, lived in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen and had eaten poultry there, media reported.

The World Health Organization say there is no evidence of any sustained human-to-human transmission of H7N9, and so far all people who came into contact with the man had tested negative for the strain.

There have been no cases of H7N9 reported in the United States.