TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu. , d8 ~% M6 @ ~2 a' I& ~ 7 _7 D- \( I, U7 WChief 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.$ t# b! Q0 b6 ]2 i9 m
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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.") ~5 X0 ?; P& ]+ v4 N7 g
9 ^1 t$ B0 R! k0 `+ P# c+ A$ i3 hMexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. ( [1 s: Q: t8 V* s* A% n! y " Z8 B* s7 P; E& [0 \* h[ 本帖最后由 billzhao 于 2009-4-26 12:29 编辑 ]
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.