Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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CBC News
0 O7 v6 r1 u! v( `6 E. X8 w! xA 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.

: G, |# Z, t/ ~1 ~6 a$ _. gThe 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.

; ]4 `& r* G  l- k# U% I2 GAll of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.
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/ u. k( J& Z0 uNew cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
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- R' K$ ^& w7 M) N( r! I' uAs of Monday, the World Health Organization has officially reported 35,928 cases of H1N1 influenza A virus in 76 countries, including 163 deaths.

Also on Monday, Croatia's health minister said an earlier report by a WHO lab reporting the country's first case was a mistake.

  E. {5 ?. I- `& fWhen 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.
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; e5 {# D3 H! C' Z+ o" D- JOn 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.