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Calgary-area woman becomes 5th Albertan to die from swine flu virus
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CALGARY — Alberta has recorded its fifth death linked to the swine flu.
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Alberta Health says the latest person to die is a woman from the Calgary area who had underlying medical conditions." Q4 X9 m! N* Y A; v
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Dr. 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.
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This is the second swine-flu related death in the Calgary region., c/ x* q4 W8 F( g) A c: T% G
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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.
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' d2 f0 p, {4 {( K% o5 rThe latest death brings to 57 the number of people across Canada who have died after contracting the H1N1 virus. |
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