Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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CBC News
9 R6 Q6 w9 Y8 FA baby born prematurely to a woman in Scotland who subsequently became the first person in Britain to die of swine flu has also died, a health official said Tuesday.
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A Scottish government spokesman, who declined to be named in keeping with government policy, said the baby did not die from swine flu.


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% [; A/ N3 E2 Y$ m8 z6 _Fleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.

/ H/ u1 E) ]& ?( Z; y1 Q5 _The United Kingdom currently has the most confirmed swine flu cases in Europe, with 1,461 cases identified since April. Dozens of other suspected cases await confirmation in Scotland.

: p1 a1 J$ y+ I; F* DAlso on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.

( w) T5 h. h3 i+ P# qAll of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.
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9 }/ `* e2 k+ X  p% A# q! hNew cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

1 i( A2 @, Y4 E5 u! x  wAs of Monday, the World Health Organization has officially reported 35,928 cases of H1N1 influenza A virus in 76 countries, including 163 deaths.

0 Q! @4 Z$ W2 ~4 ^) \( dAlso on Monday, Croatia's health minister said an earlier report by a WHO lab reporting the country's first case was a mistake.
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When a WHO lab based in London doublechecked the finding, the tests were negative, said Health Minister Darko Milinovic. Earlier tests at a Croatian lab were also negative.

On Tuesday, health officials in Quebec said two more people — a man and a woman each between the ages of 30 and 50 who lived in the Montreal area — had died after contracting swine flu.
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Two people with swine flu in Manitoba also died — a man in his 40s with no known significant underlying health conditions and a woman in her 40s with serious health problems — provincial health officials announced Tuesday.

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 4,049 cases have been confirmed in Canada as of Monday, including seven fatalities.