TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.. O! ~3 n3 O% d S% v1 }2 C/ K
8 {( ^' ^6 l2 x0 v, {7 s5 KChief 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. ) E! g* Q. P* F; | @; `8 ]) ?6 h; V! d+ |: E
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." 6 g( y5 U; m" ?; a D: e2 C* R2 u" V0 F d/ G
Mexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. % H6 y% P! [* }/ A/ P& q" n! \& n/ B3 S5 r3 q$ F
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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.