TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.! u4 R: Y1 {7 v! _8 l$ B
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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.# M# t# x0 x+ S- v% U( O- {" [9 ]
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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."1 ]1 X" \: E' y' d) ^- M
% Z8 `* S: t: _, Z; I: E4 AMexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13.! q: a, P7 [6 p- W2 |
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.