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    21 June 2012| last updated at 10:17AM

    H1N1 Thai outbreaks under control



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    BANGKOK: Public Health Minister Wittaya Buranasiri announced on Wednesday that recent outbreaks of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) in Thailand's northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima province have been under control, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.

    Wittaya confirmed that his ministry's mobile medical team dispatched to the province has brought the situation under control and found that 41 people at the Nakhon Ratchasima Rajanagarindra Psychiatric Hospital have been confirmed to have contracted the H1N1 virus, 36 of them are patients and the rest are hospital staff, but several of them have been recovering.

    The minister said Thailand now has vaccine to prevent the 2009 H1N1 flu, and that about 70,000 people nationwide have been vaccinated. -- BERNAMA

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