The Honduran health authorities on Thursday reported two new deaths of A/H1N1 influenza, raising the total death toll to four in the country.

"Today we received a notification from the general direction office about two patients who died of A/H1N1 flu," Victor Borjas, an epidemiologist working for the health ministry, told local media.

The victims were a one-year-old female infant and a 39-year-old male, both from Cortes Province in the north of the country.

The country reported its first confirmed case on May 21, a nine-year-old girl from San Pedro Sula, the capital of Cortes.

Since the A/H1N1 flu outbreak in Mexico, Honduras has launched a national anti-pandemic plan and tightened up border quarantine control.

(Xinhua News Agency July 31, 2009)