TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu. ; H( m/ O3 B* Y1 \3 R1 _% R/ Z. g( Y' R+ p! h$ O+ M! l5 Q3 L) o
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. 3 f! R! T3 ? ?5 a4 k# _0 Z2 Z. N5 s
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." + t. i" L. ?5 t4 b- \& b' A2 H9 b4 Z: C0 }
Mexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. * B; b Z4 y; k, E( N. O3 |% d9 z0 j4 N# H# z: z( b
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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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