TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu. 9 h" q6 k) d5 }# P i& K/ Q g$ H% n" z ]# D6 W
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.1 _9 I" ~5 _; o4 L5 m: P6 P& {4 v
$ M# C! |; ]3 j. c. r) G- ECanadian 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 C m- r- N) c. y/ X. U k0 J- Q0 f' }9 d1 V6 ^5 eMexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. & Z5 L4 u- b f$ f' ~* I ^8 C. {. @. s; r[ 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.