HOUSTON, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Texas health authorities on Thursday reported that 380 new cases of A/H1N1 flu have been confirmed during the past week, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 2,050 in the state.

    The Texas Department of State Health Service also reported three more deaths from A/H1N1 flu, bringing the death toll to six in the state so far.

    Both figures are much higher than those released last Friday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC), which reported on its website that the number of confirmed cases of A/H1N1 flu in the state of Texas was 1,670, with three deaths.

    The 2,050 cases came from 75 of Texas' 254 counties, of which Hidalgo, Cameron, and El Paso are the three hardest-hit, with 406, 261 and 217 confirmed cases respectively.

    As for the latest three deaths, the department said the victims were a man, a woman and a girl who died on may 27 in El Paso County.

    The previous three deaths involved a woman in Cameron County, a man in Nueces County and a young boy from Mexico who died in a Houston hospital -- the first death from the A/H1N1 flu virus in the United States.

    Texas is now in early summer when seasonal flu usually wanes. But A/H1N1 flu, unlike the seasonal one, is apparently spreading in the state.

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