14 July 2009—A New Influenza A (H1N1) affected man who came back from a foreign country was being provided with medical treatment at the separate room of Waibagi Specialist Hospital since 8 July. The patient has been getting better with no fever since 11 July, and the specialists are giving intensive care to him at the separate room of the hospital. Arrangement has been made for him to be discharged from the hospital after the certain period of monitoring his progress.

Four family members who came into contact with the patient were being kept under home surveillance, and 104 passengers who were together with him on the same flight and 122 staff of Yangon International Airport were also under surveillance. Up to now, nothing unusual has been found.

The Ministry of Health is taking surveillance measures at the international arrivals and departures. A total of 2,001,039 people were screened for the virus—86,686 flight passengers at the airports, 6,573 at seaports and 1,907,780 at border checkpoints from 28 April to 13 July. From 28 April to 12 July, 15,009 people with symptoms of fever and suspected flu had been kept under surveillance at hotels and their residences. Of them, 6,184 are free from the surveillance because the 10-day period of surveillance is up. A total of 8,825 people continue to be kept under surveillance.

After 48 people had laboratory tests, only two were found to be infected with A (H1N1). A total of 23 people were found to have had seasonal flu and other 23 people were not found with any flu.

The Ministry of Health is taking systematic preventive and control measures against the virus in order to avert spread of global human flu pandemic and is issuing public warnings to be followed.