TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.: v$ q1 \9 `$ v7 f
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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. - F. `* y9 i$ K% ]& B h 2 m& N p: E; Y8 k: S, }) H! zCanadian 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."4 M4 _+ h; R: j" ]; C+ |
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Mexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. ( N! ]3 I8 _4 H$ o# ] ) f7 |2 m) E, e6 d[ 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.