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.

- S* Z3 N/ z2 N. \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.

" A8 `. B% E/ y% j: hThe 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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9 E9 ]3 \; @! ^Also on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.

& v/ |$ d" Y2 r/ q$ @$ XAll of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.
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* l5 G9 Z! t% \1 j0 k  i/ ]New cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

% W; D) K7 H- {) j% YAs 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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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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8 r" o$ ~" x9 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.

6 m% T! m5 u. k9 \9 q+ ^! rOn 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.
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0 Q: L: f% Z: u6 [8 U: KAccording to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 4,049 cases have been confirmed in Canada as of Monday, including seven fatalities.