The patient, a 75-year-old woman from the provincial capital of Nanjing, is in a critical condition.
The new case brings the number of infections in the province to eight this year.
H7N9 has killed 19 in China this year, and the total number of human infections had reached 96 on Monday, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
With bird flu cases increasing on a daily basis, public concern over people-to-people transmission of the disease during Spring Festival is growing.
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