Myanmar tightens measures against A/H1N1

For the move, the authorities have formed medical groups in every townships of the municipal area and carrying out ten-day home monitoring program on the people who returned from abroad, the report said.

Such specific surveillance campaign for controlling the spread of human flu pandemic, has started this month.

There are so far four flu-infected cases reported in Myanmar, of them the first two infected patients have recovered and been discharged from the hospital after intensive care.

Myanmar reported its first confirmed case of A/H1N1 influenza on June 27 and reaching the case to four on July 17.

So far, the authorities have given medical check up to over two million people at airports, ports and border check points and examined those suspicious of the deadly disease since the outbreak in Mexico on April 28, according to the state-run newspaper; Kazinform cites China View.

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