TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.9 R; G8 \7 ^3 L" ?2 P
7 w" R r% M' hChief 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 T) f0 G7 A- Q. p 3 L& a4 x/ W! t( F! `3 aCanadian 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." 8 |8 V+ o4 g0 l9 J. q" X H4 Y+ o4 k' z& d4 E/ J
Mexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. & k. o! r) i) u5 y# j/ ?9 B0 i( S. u) ]. d# P! e; }
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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.