Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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: c/ R! r+ w0 ^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.
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" u5 K9 K( k& lA 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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0 ?: R  u+ j4 r5 Q/ R% w% ^$ V- W. I; kFleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.
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) L" m  ^3 b; M+ K, C+ C  X8 k8 vThe 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.

* M+ b% `$ L  c9 \! h8 O1 aAlso on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.
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, T0 L) g' ^9 F# wAll of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.
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New cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
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$ S$ N1 i( j/ @; h# y5 ?- zAs of Monday, the World Health Organization has officially reported 35,928 cases of H1N1 influenza A virus in 76 countries, including 163 deaths.

# r+ f) N7 Y& d* W# e  l/ ?) X% CAlso on Monday, Croatia's health minister said an earlier report by a WHO lab reporting the country's first case was a mistake.

! S9 O- {1 ~2 t1 N$ d) q) _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.
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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.
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: R# X: g, f3 b$ H6 J$ xTwo 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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* V0 A8 r! j- {* E# _6 gAccording to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 4,049 cases have been confirmed in Canada as of Monday, including seven fatalities.