Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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CBC News
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.

A Scottish government spokesman, who declined to be named in keeping with government policy, said the baby did not die from swine flu.



Fleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.

; |% k$ _% p- Z. WThe 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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& W% F0 r- i4 t8 k- }% ~) uAlso on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.

All of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.
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1 Y8 z1 F, ]4 j/ oNew cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
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As of Monday, the World Health Organization has officially reported 35,928 cases of H1N1 influenza A virus in 76 countries, including 163 deaths.

. @8 [) W8 p' k) ^- z' b; MAlso 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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3 [- r% s$ N0 x3 {5 P3 `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.

  j# ~- A$ @+ f3 i' K( ?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.

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.