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Calgary-area woman becomes 5th Albertan to die from swine flu virus
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1 D. W4 y0 C3 Y2 ]CALGARY — Alberta has recorded its fifth death linked to the swine flu.
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Alberta Health says the latest person to die is a woman from the Calgary area who had underlying medical conditions.0 `0 ` _( |3 d, T8 C
( y6 ` }: C1 F8 B. k6 ?, I% _" oDr. Gerry Predy, the province's senior officer of medical health, says the victim was admitted to hospital in early July and died about three weeks later.
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' T9 K- T7 [' t3 ^; hThis is the second swine-flu related death in the Calgary region.: k8 z2 C! \$ @9 }) y/ e2 |6 q
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All five people to die so far in Alberta have been women, but Predy says he doesn't believe there is a propensity for the virus to cause illness in females.
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1 i- m) H# n! o, [! b- BThe latest death brings to 57 the number of people across Canada who have died after contracting the H1N1 virus. |
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