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July 10, 2009 (DVB)?State-run media in Burma today confirmed that a 20-year-old man has become the second victim of the A/H1N1 swine flu virus in the country, following a trip to Thailand earlier this week.
Burma?s Ministry of Health has quarantined all family members, along with the 104 fellow passengers on the plane that brought him from Thailand to Rangoon on 6 July, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported.
Echoing the case of the 13-year-old girl who last month become Burma?s first A/H1N1 victim, the newspaper said that the man had not tested positive for a fever at the airport, but had fallen ill the next day.
?He is under intensive health care by a team of specialists in the hospital. Since this morning, he has been getting better with no fever,? said the report.
The 13-year-old has reportedly recovered and was yesterday discharged from the Rangoon hospital.
The news follows criticisms from locals living along the Thai-Burma border that the thousands of tourists crossing into Burma each day were not being properly checked for A/H1N1 by health officials.
A local Burmese business owner living in the Thai town of Mae Sai, across from Tachilek town in Burma?s Shan state, said yesterday that [Burmese] medical assistants at the border checkpoints are only assessing those who looked sick.
?They do check people who look nauseous but not everyone,? he said.
A local in the Burmese border town of Myawaddy in Karen state, across from Mae Sot in Thailand, said there was also little change from the normal protocol of inspecting people at the checkpoint there.
The authorities continue to take preventive measures against the possible spread of the global 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.
YANGON, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Two more patients have been found infected with new influenza A/H1N1 in Myanmar, bringing the total number of such cases to nine in the country, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Wednesday.
The two new patients, a 23-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man, arrived back from India and Malaysia on July 20 and 27 on flight No. TG 303 and BM 502 respectively.
A total of 222 passengers, who were together with the patients on the same flights, are under surveillance and seven of their family members are also kept under home quarantine, the report said.
Of Myanmar's nine flu patients, the prior four have recovered and were discharged from hospital, the report added.
Myanmar reported the first case of new flu A/H1N1 in the country on June 27 with a 13-year-old girl who developed the symptoms after coming back home from Singapore a day earlier.
So far, the authorities have given medical check up to over 2 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, it said.
The authorities claimed that the seven human flu cases are all imported ones.
The authorities continue to take preventive measures against the possible spread of the global 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.
Chiang Mai (mizzima): One additional person has tested positive for the A (H1N1) virus, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the whole country to 10, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Health.
State-run newspaper, Myanmar Ahlin, today reported that a 57-year-old man, who had returned from Singapore by flight MI-512 on July 20, has tested positive.
Thirteen family members, 74 passengers on the same flight and 130 of Rangoon?s Mingaladon Airport staff are being monitored by Health Department officials, the paper revealed.
According to official statements issued so far, the people, who have tested positive, had all returned from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and India.
The health officials checked over 1.9 million people, who crossed the border gates, according to an official announcement.
However, many people doubt the actual figures and statistics of virus-positive people in the whole country because several hundreds daily cross the porous borders to Burma?s neighboring countries Thailand, China, Bangladesh and India.
Dr. Voravit Suwanvanichkij, Research Associate at the Center for Public Health & Human Rights of John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said there exists an alarming situation in Burma, as most people do not cross the borders into neighbouring countries through official check-points.
Thailand, where the virus is widespread, shares a border line of over 2,000 kilometres, with Burma. With people going in and out of the border area and avoiding the official check-points, along with the lack of public health system, the situation is very alarming, the doctor said.
?With an almost non-functional public health system, most infections are likely to thrive without being diagnosed or even noticed,? he added.
In Thailand, 9000 persons have tested positive and 65 were killed by the A (H1N1) virus. The disease has spread to 170 countries globally and over 130,000 people have tested positive.
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