Myanmar's second new-flu-infected patient is recovering from illness with no fever remained since the last weekend and is to be discharged from hospital soon after intensive care, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported on Wednesday.

The second new influenza A/H1N1 case was found with the young man, aged 20, returning to Yangon from Thailand on July 6 by a Thai Air Asia's flight and has been treated in the suburban Waibagi hospital in Yangon.

Four family members, 104 passengers along with him on the same flight and 122 airport staff were kept under quarantine and monitoring but nothing unusual has been found, the report said.

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.

Of the over 15,000 people with symptoms of fever and suspected flu, 6,184 have been free from surveillance after 10 days' period of monitoring and a total of 8,825 people remain under surveillance, it added.

Of the 48 people who underwent laboratory test, only two were found infected with A/H1N1 virus, it claimed.

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.

The first flu-infected 13-year-old girl patient had been discharged from the Yangon General Hospital on July 8 after intensive treatment.

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.

(Xinhua News Agency July 15, 2009)