Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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0 P# T9 U2 @( A* e/ P$ TA 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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* u0 x5 S3 e  w+ Z; fFleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.

" K2 K7 c' H1 I( n+ r) fThe 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.

3 f. J1 `/ P+ L% @: G/ TAlso on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.

4 G% W9 q: i# p# ^All of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.
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" w6 U8 u: H4 \9 \New cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

. E! C! y. b" R( C: _8 JAs 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.

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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, N% d& o& U$ M. z! gTwo 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.