The Public Health Ministry is urging people to pay strict attention to their personal hygiene to cut down on their chances of catching the flu.
"There were signs of the 2009 flu virus in some areas during this year's flu season, along with some areas becoming hot spots," Dr Passakorn Assawasewee, director of the Department of Disease Control's Bureau of Epidemiology, said.
According to the bureau's most recent report, about 260 people developed flulike symptoms over the past two weeks, raising the number of infections this year to 8,442, with some 57 people dying from the typeA (H1N1) virus. The virus hit Thailand last April, infecting 30,336 people and killing 197 of them.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced the end of the pandemic in July after it had spread to 214 countries and killed more than 18,449 people across the world.
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