Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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% B- S) T) ^- uA 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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3 J: z- P% x3 b. Y; F7 DFleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.
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0 `# H& I! m% oThe 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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! V6 L  j. m) A+ h4 QAlso on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.
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2 t1 O; d  j) p8 j! iAll 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.
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+ e  ~. h. w, g3 F- O9 QAs 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.

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.

" W. @( U" a' aOn 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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/ {5 M+ B# Y( l. @' U+ K: i8 {- b2 }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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- l1 n& J5 L* }; K' n- o3 q& ~According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 4,049 cases have been confirmed in Canada as of Monday, including seven fatalities.