Iranian health officials have reported two more swine flu deaths in the country, bringing the total toll of the fatal disease to six.

"Two more people have died of the swine flu during the past week to increase the number of the country's victims to six," Fars news quoted the Director of the Health Ministry's Flu Program and Border Health Care, Mahmoud Soroush, as saying on Friday.

"The two new swine flu victims included an adult and a child who died due to weakness of their immune systems," he added.

Previously four individuals including a 36-year-old woman, a 96-year-old man and two children aged less than two had died because of the virus.

"Unfortunately, the Iranians have not taken the disease outbreak seriously despite the country's Health Ministry's recommendations to obey health rules," he explained.

Soroush also urged Iranian people to avoid unnecessary trips to countries in which the swine flu outbreak has been reported.

According to the Iranian health official, a total of 422 confirmed A/H1N1 cases have so far been identified in the country.

The country's officials maintain that adopting simple precautionary measures such as washing hands frequently, using a tissue at the time of coughing and sneezing and avoiding kissing can contain the virus.

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