Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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, U% p8 Y( p# m% K! t7 z; Y) u) ~; GA 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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Fleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.

* k& H# m- b) f9 Z, y. [2 K% fThe 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.

" D) x4 ]! {7 t* uAll of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.
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New cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

1 |7 m, @" O# L% ~# `# W. IAs of Monday, the World Health Organization has officially reported 35,928 cases of H1N1 influenza A virus in 76 countries, including 163 deaths.

! N( p( j. x1 {6 `! i- ]3 ^0 uAlso on Monday, Croatia's health minister said an earlier report by a WHO lab reporting the country's first case was a mistake.

8 E9 `6 t- i& b' SWhen 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.

2 ^# h4 l# x& f* X8 OOn 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.

/ z' g5 K$ b0 X+ }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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# |! f" v4 O2 G. }According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 4,049 cases have been confirmed in Canada as of Monday, including seven fatalities.