A man that was suffering from the H5N6-strain of avian flu has been discharged from hospital, health authorities in south China´s Guangdong Province said on Friday.

After over a month in hospital, the man has shown stable signs of improvement, said Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases in Guangdong.

When he was admitted to hospital on Dec. 4,, the patient was in a critical condition and had symptoms including high fever and vomiting. He later tested positive for H5N6.

This was the second H5N6 human infection case in the world. In April, a man from southwest China´s Sichuan Province was confirmed to have died after contracting H5N6.