TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.1 B- |1 h& ]0 b e* M
( g% c8 `8 X4 v# iChief 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. 7 |6 |( `( T$ A9 I# T+ e: ?- y' h+ K, d2 [8 X9 O9 Q5 O2 T/ @1 |
Canadian 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." % Q7 W. j O' o3 U0 W' [% D6 [( J , J9 {( z1 C5 S# B: z) r6 m' oMexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13.$ F* g3 r! K: G; P& T6 k; `7 C
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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.