Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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2 h% W* v" k' B/ c4 ]0 ]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.

- e( ]! ^% D* p5 r# v; OA 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.
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5 N( s" C& x" ]: I; O$ T- {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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Also on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.

3 j: {& r! x7 n" CAll of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.
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, u5 N* G7 l& X$ J1 YNew cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
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+ `5 A) m+ s6 r) L- n7 C( CAs 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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  l0 d% Z, W, F4 r5 Z; u0 C9 {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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9 W9 y" f, 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.

9 [  Q  i0 G! o! vOn 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.
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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.

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 4,049 cases have been confirmed in Canada as of Monday, including seven fatalities.