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! e* U7 d" t1 t1 p& `Calgary-area woman becomes 5th Albertan to die from swine flu virus6 p6 m' q4 A& j0 U8 y) y
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CALGARY — 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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( V8 c. @. L, k8 X4 \Dr. 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.1 ~- G$ ^: D6 E( I( z0 C& ]
`0 a6 @( n6 p0 aThis is the second swine-flu related death in the Calgary region.
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+ L; Y$ p" ~* z; ~: TAll 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.
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The latest death brings to 57 the number of people across Canada who have died after contracting the H1N1 virus. |
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