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+ g6 d' c! p' NA 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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2 n9 f) L* O1 u$ @$ W h3 OFleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.1 K# G' a7 R o# `6 u/ K, f
. L7 n" G' M$ u2 v) k( C( y3 |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.
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, t* s' r) @2 Q' b# ZAlso on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu./ ?/ N% x% t( \: b7 x& K; m* r
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All of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.
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7 P0 A4 e, U5 _2 ~New cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.9 z+ R. f2 I P/ x/ ~; H
3 Z1 ~& p, Z' j+ k3 o% FAs 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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9 j* ]' i- k4 k2 O4 L% ]3 ]6 \. n. U# `. oAlso on Monday, Croatia's health minister said an earlier report by a WHO lab reporting the country's first case was a mistake.# W. `2 W7 ^, d
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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.- V6 |) Q& F0 w! A. [# [5 N
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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.' |2 s; P( Q! c6 V3 N s
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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.
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! o$ ~9 g- n, k$ JAccording to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 4,049 cases have been confirmed in Canada as of Monday, including seven fatalities. |
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