Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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CBC News
A 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.

% T  n% G0 A6 N  B% w0 ?A Scottish government spokesman, who declined to be named in keeping with government policy, said the baby did not die from swine flu.



0 a, q  w$ `) [, nFleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.
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! Y; v3 [+ [+ K' ?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.

( V) G- _5 S( ^2 u3 \: }! F4 oAlso on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.

7 M2 R: Z. z& B0 a& B: ~All of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.

0 z+ G# R0 J' y7 a0 P% t. H+ fNew cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
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As of Monday, the World Health Organization has officially reported 35,928 cases of H1N1 influenza A virus in 76 countries, including 163 deaths.
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  H6 ?) @; \8 P. \- oAlso 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.

: i5 T2 N( d1 B/ A4 }. e/ {& v1 h$ cOn 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.

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.