Three swine flu deaths, including two in Maharashtra, were reported Saturday, taking the toll from the influenza A (H1N1) infection in India to 1,116, health officials said here.
Apart from the two deaths in Maharashtra, where the casualties have jumped to 300, one death was reported from Gujarat. With this death, the toll in Gujarat has now touched 174.

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Swine flu claims the life of a ninth Santa Barbara County resident.

A public health department spokesperson said this most recent H1N1 related death was a woman in her mid-30′s.

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source: Meanwhile two more Costa Ricans died of causes related to the H1N1 flu, and health officials are investigating the presence of the virus in three additional fatalities. In total, the Health Ministry is reporting 1,847 confirmed cases and 49 deaths, since the first cases surfaced in May.

source: A 58-year-old Morris County woman with an underlying medical condition died from swine flu, state health officials reported on Wednesday.

A/H1N1 flu has caused permanent pulmonary damage to some patients in Finland, according to Finnish media report Thursday.

In Kuopio, the city situated in the middle part of Finland, five people who were in intensive care with the A/H1N1 virus developed serious lung problems. For example, one healthy 40-year-old woman’s lungs have been incurably damaged.

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source: Swine flu has killed its first victim in Geneva, according to the cantonal hospital. An elderly woman, admitted on December 18, died eleven days later, health officials said on Wednesday.

The number of deaths recorded in Romania in patients infected with the AH1N1 virus reached 92. Forty-four new patients have been tested positive for swine flu during the last two days, according to the latest survey published by Romanian Health Ministry.

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source: TWO MORE people have died from the H1N1 flu bringing the total death toll in Cyprus to eight, six in the government-controlled areas and two in the Turkish-occupied north.

Egypt on Sunday reported eight more death cases of influenza A/H1N1, bringing the nationwide death toll to 195, said the Health Ministry in a statement.

The death cases came from the governorates of Giza, Beheira, Port Said, Alexandria, Beni Suef, Cairo and Qalyubiya respectively, said the statement, without giving more details.

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source: Eleven swine flu deaths, eight in Gujarat alone, were reported Sunday, taking the toll in India to 1,061, health officials said here.

Pennsylvania: A coroner says an inmate serving a life sentence in the shooting of a Pittsburgh high school student died of swine flu after falling ill in November. (AP)

Oklahoma: State health officials say the number of deaths related to swine flu in Oklahoma is now 40. (AP)

Illinois: Illinois health officials are reporting three new deaths and 67 new hospitalizations linked to the swine flu virus. (AP)

source: Swine Flu has taken six more lives in Canada in a one week period ending on Thursday.

The lab-confirmed Canadian death toll from the pandemic virus reached 416 on Jan. 7 with deaths reported in B.C., Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador where three people died in one week.

Two more people have died from swine flu, bringing the Scottish death toll to 64.

An adult from the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, who was transferred to Leicester for treatment, died after contracting the H1N1 strain. The patient had been transferred to a hospital in the city, which houses the only specialist unit in the UK providing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation treatment for adults.

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source: It is not known whether the deceased was a man or a woman. The death was announced in the Department of Health’s weekly swine flu update.

source: State health officials say three more people died this week from swine flu.