With Hong Kong authorities’ confirmation that a traveler who arrived from Mexico tested positive for A/H1N1 flu virus, Vietnam should be on high alert for the spread of the pandemic, said the National Steering Committee for Human Influenza Prevention and Control.

With Hong Kong authorities’ confirmation that a traveler who arrived from Mexico tested positive for A/H1N1 flu virus, Vietnam should be on high alert for the spread of the pandemic, said the National Steering Committee for Human Influenza Prevention and Control.

About 50 flights with about 7,000 passengers on board flew in to Tan Son Nhat International Airport on May 2, including 2,000 from A/H1N1 flu zones, but no cases of infection were found, said Nguyen Van Sau, director of the HCM City International Health Quarantine Center.

Vietnam battled SARS and H5N1 bird flu in 2003 and has improved its health infrastructure. Vietnam now makes the public campaign across the country againt swine flu