TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu. ; w' }- z$ H0 p. N1 V6 Z" _* C M+ o2 C# X! X) y3 e
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.- W% v* q$ W# C; Y! i$ o# ]3 l
9 J1 k7 g' ~* [* G9 D/ 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." ( ^: E- R( M' S& A( z8 r3 s9 I r; e- V9 ~+ ~5 j' d+ Y
Mexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13.: w* K2 e( R Q/ o! g' i
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.