CANADA: Dead elderly Calgary woman tested for swine flu

. OTTAWA / Agence France-Presse / May 8, 2009 An elderly woman suspected of having the A/H1N1 virus has died in the Canadian province of Alberta, although the cause of her death is unconfirmed, CBC television reported Friday. Canadian public health officials were not immediately able to comment. If confirmed, the death will be the first from the disease in Canada, which has seen 214 confirmed cases. The flu has so far killed 42 people in Mexico and two others in the United States. Across the globe the World Health Organization said 2,371 people had been infected with the virus in 24 countries. Only the Canadian Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador has not seen a case, after the Saskatchewan reported its first two cases Thursday. Copyright © 2009 AFP