China's Ministry of Health said on Monday that a man in the southern coastal province of Guangdong who returned home on May 15 from a tour in the United States and Canada via the Republic of Korea and Hong Kong was suspected of having caught the A/H1N1 influenza.

En route from Hong Kong to Guangdong by train T810, he displayed symptoms such as a fever, and he had an elevated temperature upon arrival. He was sent to a hospital in Guangzhou and put into quarantine. The ministry said he was currently in stable condition.

If the diagnosis is confirmed, he would become the fourth known case of the flu on the Chinese mainland. The other three were in Chengdu, Sichuan Province; Jinan, Shandong Province and Beijing.

(Xinhua News Agency May 18, 2009)