A 21-year-old man has become the fifth person confirmed with swine flu in the ACT.
But the man has no apparent link with the territory’s four other cases of swine flu and has not travelled overseas or on the flu-stricken Pacific Dawn cruise ship.
The health department said the man tested positive for H1N1 influenza after becoming ill on the weekend and seeing a doctor. He has been "socially isolated" since his diagnosis.
Two of the ACT’s swine flu cases have come from the Pacific Dawn cruise ship, which docked in Sydney last week despite having several passengers with the disease.
Australia now has at least 879 recorded cases of swine flu with most of the outbreak occurring in Victoria, which has 752 cases.
The ACT’s flu pandemic threat level remains at the "contain" phase, where a small number of flu cases have occurred and authorities must work to prevent the disease taking hold.