Heath officials have confirmed that a woman from Labrador has died after contracting swine flu.
The woman, whose age and hometown haven't been released, died over the weekend at a hospital in St. John's.
Dr. Muna ar-Rushdi, the medical officer of health for Labrador-Grenfell Health, said the woman had a number of other medical issues.
Her death is the eighth confirmed death in the province due to swine flu.
Six involved people who had other medical problems and one person had no known medical problems prior to contracting H1N1, according to medical officials.
On Friday, the province's health minister confirmed that the chief medical examiner in Newfoundland and Labrador is reviewing six other recent deaths to see if they were caused by swine flu.
Jerome Kennedy said lab tests have confirmed that the six tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus, either before or after they died.
Kennedy said a team of medical specialists, led by Dr. Simon Avis, the province's chief medical officer, will review those cases to see what role the virus might have played in their deaths.
The Public Health Agency of Canada defines an H1N1-related death as a death occurring in any person with lab-confirmed swine flu with "no period of complete recovery between the time of illness and the death."
That review is expected to be completed by next week.
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