Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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$ L/ ~5 ^) e1 A4 ], b- ?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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5 L0 d; y; T9 S8 U- g1 DFleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.
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$ a4 l: A: p  Y3 [* ?) J& A4 l/ F+ }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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Also on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.
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2 n! \5 R# l" a$ t6 H/ Y" Y$ m. vAll 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.

( ^- k) m' v9 L! ~2 Q' C3 MAs 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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6 }, t& z& u; }. XAlso on Monday, Croatia's health minister said an earlier report by a WHO lab reporting the country's first case was a mistake.

$ ~$ Q) x4 D0 ^% ?' F, q9 |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.

5 Z4 v  T+ z0 D6 _6 {0 sOn 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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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.

& k; a& U5 e9 d- i7 j: bAccording to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 4,049 cases have been confirmed in Canada as of Monday, including seven fatalities.