TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu. ) N/ k' M3 E2 _ B2 @' o; J% ?* K; V& T1 \0 `. C0 J" }
Chief Public Health officer Dr. Robert Strang says Sunday four students from King's-Edgehill School in Nova Scotia ranging in age from 12 to 17 or 18 are recovering. All of them had what he describes as "very mild" cases of the flu. 8 h; ~( k( X* o 8 i- H" u3 s& e, {& F% q( Y6 fCanadian officials are planning a briefing today in Ottawa on the swine flu situation, which the World Health Organization has declared to be a "public health emergency of international concern."0 V9 }; N3 |1 Z& j
) V* Z) h( o# S. ^Mexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13.. z- C* g3 b" ?/ Z5 y8 M2 c% i$ \
Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza that regularly cause outbreaks of influenza among pigs. Swine flu viruses do not normally infect humans, however, human infections with swine flu do occur, and cases of human-to-human spread of swine flu viruses has been documented.