TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.. p# v6 Y( I; l4 v# H3 M* p
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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. 2 J3 {2 G4 {4 {" a/ P7 o: {- M T
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." - p7 G$ S k3 ]( L" h; r# z/ ]) x' x! n5 d; }/ Q
Mexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. ( U* ^1 t/ W, x- M8 t& I9 V- H- l
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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.