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* \ ]* u: g$ v' w% i' e D4 ?Calgary-area woman becomes 5th Albertan to die from swine flu virus
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i3 u% V) \; y9 P1 B* g7 p" S2 yCALGARY — Alberta has recorded its fifth death linked to the swine flu.
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Alberta Health says the latest person to die is a woman from the Calgary area who had underlying medical conditions.
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& p; Z6 U+ c; z1 S3 tDr. Gerry Predy, the province's senior officer of medical health, says the victim was admitted to hospital in early July and died about three weeks later.
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This is the second swine-flu related death in the Calgary region., u5 X$ q- k0 r4 d$ O
2 {5 o, ^' Z, |4 u+ b7 ^2 @All five people to die so far in Alberta have been women, but Predy says he doesn't believe there is a propensity for the virus to cause illness in females. J) b% f/ x% S
; c8 b7 B# C$ h \, `, H9 {The latest death brings to 57 the number of people across Canada who have died after contracting the H1N1 virus. |
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