TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu. 1 J4 l2 y2 z6 h* W " N+ q1 v2 H1 s U7 fChief 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. ) r6 m" T9 i! i . C/ Y# o2 @6 a+ {8 LCanadian 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." s; ~3 P% {2 \0 Z; O6 R* D3 F' e. Q, O0 I
Mexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. 9 Q: X8 v" n& N8 k7 Z$ ~/ G 2 I$ |% C8 {0 t) H$ B[ 本帖最后由 billzhao 于 2009-4-26 12:29 编辑 ]
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.