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| An elderly man who was suffering from swine flu has died, health officials have confirmed. | An elderly man who was suffering from swine flu has died, health officials have confirmed. |
| The 73-year old was being treated at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley at the time. He died late on Saturday. | |
| A spokesman for the Scottish Government said he was suffering from underlying health complications. | A spokesman for the Scottish Government said he was suffering from underlying health complications. |
| The pensioner passed away late on Saturday night. He is the second person in the UK who was suffering from swine flu to die. | The pensioner passed away late on Saturday night. He is the second person in the UK who was suffering from swine flu to die. |
| The first death, earlier this month, was a 38-year-old woman who gave birth prematurely while being treated at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. She also had underlying health conditions. | |
| Her death was the first connected to swine flu outside the Americas. | |
| It emerged on Saturday that three people attending the Glastonbury Festival have been diagnosed with suspected swine flu. | |
| Two students and a 10-year-old child from a family of four showed symptoms of the illness when examined by festival medical staff. | |
| The students, from Exeter and Edinburgh universities, and the family were moved off the festival site and into an isolation facility. | |
| They have since returned home. | |
| The H1N1 virus first emerged in April in Mexico, which has recorded 116 deaths and 8,279 cases, according to the World Health Organisation. | |
| On 11 June, the WHO declared a global flu pandemic, meaning that swine flu virus was spreading in at least two regions of the world. | |
| Officials stressed that this did not mean the virus was causing more severe illness or more deaths. | |
| According to the latest figures from the WHO, there have been 263 deaths and nearly 60,000 cases in some 100 countries and territories. |