BEIJING, Dec 3 (Reuters) - A man in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu has died of the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday.

The man was hospitalised on Nov. 27 and died on Sunday, it added.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

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