TORONTO - A six-year-old girl from Peel Region west of Toronto and two Quebecers have become the latest Canadians to die after getting swine flu.
Sixteen people have now died across the country after contracting the H1N1 virus.
Officials are unsure what role the virus played in the death of the Toronto-area girl.
Authorities are not releasing the name of the girl, who is believed to be the youngest person in Canada with the virus to have died.
Public health officials said she showed the usual symptoms of a flu -- coughing and fever -- on June 14, and died the next day without having been admitted to hospital.
Quebec health officials issued a statement to announce the deaths of two more people in the province but gave no other details.
