TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.' k$ h) Z$ ~& v* j* \7 c
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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.+ o# k x+ [1 M: W( s
6 p; Z. \. j4 x. p$ L( T& v4 DCanadian 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.") J. l h. N; m3 e4 \& X
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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 13.6 R8 `+ j1 o4 E- p. p" F& g
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.