By Russell Flannery, Forbes Staff Another five new cases of the deadly bird flu H7N9 were found in China yesterday, increasing the total in the country to 43, the state-run Shanghai Daily Newspaper reported today. The death count rose by one to 11, including seven in Shanghai, a key Chinese business hub that has been hardest hit by the disease so far. Eastern Chinese cities have been closing live poultry markets and taking other precautions to limit the spread of the new virus. China was the epicenter of the SARS epidemic in 2003 which killed several hundred people worldwide.