TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu. 2 N# z h( \' Z y- F0 s" O% z6 r% v+ MChief 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.) X }, k1 s! z* u4 {
/ u, |9 G$ D; r- a1 pCanadian 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."/ b$ o& y8 R: w& l6 Z
0 i( m7 l% ^' A9 `# s0 g( }3 Y0 QMexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13." Z& i2 r3 A8 ?! r* y
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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.