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.


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Fleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.
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% O" r, @5 L8 D; qThe 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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0 [0 t0 N3 ?; p3 C" @Also on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.
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All of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.

New cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

9 d5 P' S+ D3 J; bAs of Monday, the World Health Organization has officially reported 35,928 cases of H1N1 influenza A virus in 76 countries, including 163 deaths.

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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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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. ?, h2 H7 |: M; V( HOn 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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. }) E1 s1 f' f$ x% V3 I0 RAccording to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 4,049 cases have been confirmed in Canada as of Monday, including seven fatalities.