YANGON, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar health authorities have tightened measure against further spread of influenza A/H1N1 in Yangon, to prevent from severe consequences, sources with the Yangon municipal authority said on Wednesday.
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.
Of the over 15,000 people with symptoms of fever and suspected flu, 6,184 has been free from surveillance after ten days' period of monitoring and a total of 8,825 people remain under surveillance.
Of the 49 people who underwent laboratory test, four were found infected with A/H1N1 virus, it claimed, saying that the four human flu cases are all imported ones.
The authorities continue to take preventive measures against the human flu pandemic, advising all private clinics in the country to report or transfer all flu-suspected patients, who returned from abroad, to local state-run hospitals or health departments for increased surveillance.
xinhuanet
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