It is the first swine flu death in the United Kingdom; the victim is a 38-year-old woman who gave birth prematurely at a hospital. It is the first death reported outside the US.
As many as 1,261 cases of swine flu has been confirmed in the UK and an increasing number of sporadic cases are being reported from across the country.
AP adds:
This was also the first death from the H1N1 strain of influenza reported outside the Americas by the World Health Organisation in Geneva or the European Centers for Disease Control in Stockholm, which both keep tabs on confirmed cases of swine flu and deaths from the illness in countries around the world.
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