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.

( b5 H/ M# V8 c- B% ^7 \# EA 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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& y+ S( |8 e6 L6 bFleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.
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) g# z* j% N5 p* }5 b1 ?' F) OThe 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.
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Also on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.
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6 j3 P+ e+ A3 b) x9 k! a+ qAll of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.

New 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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4 T5 Z: z4 u7 d' W2 @Also 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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- @7 L# Z9 a2 @5 J/ `7 q4 B4 AWhen 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.

. y: R; c% q! m' iTwo 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.