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CALGARY — Alberta has recorded its fifth death linked to the swine flu.7 e3 t3 X. Q3 s- q/ [
1 v9 C1 C% y- ^3 F) y+ OAlberta Health says the latest person to die is a woman from the Calgary area who had underlying medical conditions. $ s- _7 ]+ M2 ?; d* T- t- a 1 ?5 _1 d C+ S% y- S6 G* K( @: kDr. Gerry Predy, the province's senior officer of medical health, says the victim was admitted to hospital in early July and died about three weeks later.+ {! b, p+ C% Z$ o
) N$ Y% s9 T4 b' k. E% iThis is the second swine-flu related death in the Calgary region. ) K1 d9 B C" H& G# |' m0 D3 b+ X+ P; j( e7 L5 P
All five people to die so far in Alberta have been women, but Predy says he doesn't believe there is a propensity for the virus to cause illness in females. 8 N4 k) D# r& K; ]4 `9 l" o# d6 y4 B$ P+ D% @
The latest death brings to 57 the number of people across Canada who have died after contracting the H1N1 virus.