Baby of British woman who died of swine flu also dies

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  v7 a, v) r& f' G& E" wA 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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* |8 x2 `. k/ p- hFleming had health complications besides the H1N1 infection and pregnancy, the spokesman said.
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+ h) Z: b! C, g5 @. S* iThe 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.

7 A) I2 o% B/ l, O$ [Also on Tuesday, Jordan, Qatar and Yemen reported their first cases of swine flu.
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; p  M8 ]. B8 VAll of the Middle Eastern cases arrived from the United States or New Zealand, heath officials said.
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7 E3 y. D+ e! I! @New cases were also reported by authorities in Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

  e  M: ^6 ]1 A& M' Q  n4 M& b4 eAs 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.

  m( n: B* {' O* v" i2 C- k% FWhen 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.

/ _/ \# i/ y* s4 u& P9 HOn 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.
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According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 4,049 cases have been confirmed in Canada as of Monday, including seven fatalities.