TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.8 l& N) l5 x- T, T3 g% @3 x9 i' Q
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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. 0 H& R3 G6 Q- Y. e/ g Q+ g; m. ~$ W$ {
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 `/ |+ d. [ A L; |+ q a/ A
8 J2 n" r$ S) _+ }. I: MMexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13.2 H3 v% b- S& r: w( M
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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.
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