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| Nine-year-old with swine flu dies | Nine-year-old with swine flu dies |
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| A nine-year-old girl has died at Birmingham Children's Hospital after contracting swine flu. | A nine-year-old girl has died at Birmingham Children's Hospital after contracting swine flu. |
| The hospital said the girl, who had other underlying health problems, had died in the past few days. | The hospital said the girl, who had other underlying health problems, had died in the past few days. |
| It is not known whether swine flu contributed to her death, the hospital said. | |
| She is the third person with swine flu to die in the UK. The other two fatalities were in Scotland. The total number of UK cases is 5,937. | |
| The Health Protection Agency confirmed 588 new cases of swine flu in the West Midlands region on Monday, taking the total number of cases in the region to 2,104. | |
| The first person to die from swine flu outside North America was Jacqui Fleming, 38, of Glasgow, who died on 14 June. | |
| A 73-year-old man from Paisley who had the virus was confirmed as having died on Sunday. | |
| The World Health Organisation has declared the virus a pandemic. | The World Health Organisation has declared the virus a pandemic. |