TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.$ Z! l: s( l0 |/ h+ Q/ c1 `: }# Y2 k+ 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.; C3 r1 C$ p' a5 Z1 ]0 ]+ L
: H( j6 {( _8 @& qCanadian 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."+ a% O5 D1 @# ~$ N; Q
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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. 7 S3 M/ \& T+ @( o. ?8 b& @ ' e; T, K/ z* V9 I. g. ^1 Z[ 本帖最后由 billzhao 于 2009-4-26 12:29 编辑 ]
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.