One more person was found infected with new influenza A/H1N1 in Myanmar, keeping the total number of such cases rising to 18 in the country, according to the Health Department Wednesday, Xinhua reported.
The exposure of such flu-infected patients came almost daily over the past two weeks.
The new patient, a 33-year-old man, who arrived back from abroad by flight No. MH-740 on last Friday, was brought to a special hospital Monday after he was found ill.
He was confirmed by the National Health Laboratory to have been infected with A/H1N1 influenza virus.
A total of 126 passengers and 135 airport staff are under surveillance.
Of Myanmar's 18 flu patients so far, 13 have fully recovered and were discharged from hospitals, the sources claimed.
Myanmar reported the first case of new A/H1N1 flu 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 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.