TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.: V' l# ?% d* E7 k) t7 l% {
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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.$ @/ u( t2 ^3 x( M0 K
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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." ! W8 ?. [" z. [6 C5 m & ^) Y" b5 c( `# _* pMexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13.9 K& K* T) [) [# J6 e u
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.