A nine-year-old girl has died in Britain from the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, as authorities reported a jump in the number of cases in the country. The girl is the third person in the UK to die from swine flu, doctors at a children's hospital in Birmingham, England said Monday. A spokeswoman for the hospital said in a statement: "We can sadly confirm that a child died at Birmingham Children's Hospital on Friday evening. "The ...

A second New York City resident has died after contracting swine flu, the city's Health Department reported Sunday. The victim was a woman in her 50s who had underlying health conditions, said Jessica Scaparotti, a Health Department spokeswoman. The news came a week after the city's first reported fatality from the H1N1 virus. That victim, an assistant principal at a public school, also had an underlying health condition, the department reported. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...