Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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3 s* i6 d* D* z+ X' C+ H/ P" {% a" L: FA 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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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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: V4 ^& C, m) V) K, qFleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.
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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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8 \; ?  L* l4 a9 AAlso on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.
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0 X, s2 m6 j0 _! R" h3 C! S  S; tAll of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.

- v. }2 m$ N( a6 q: I+ G& aNew cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
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1 ^' n* @) Z8 {7 lAs 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.

% h/ E! ~2 u2 c% F1 YWhen 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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- h8 Z' p! B; ^; `* [! IOn 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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, A1 j3 `1 V  Q. y% n8 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.

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