TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.! q% ^- g3 i4 X7 X. O! p) p; Z
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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.1 [% t# f' d0 H, I+ j$ a0 t" t
- i' c0 o0 _2 P' S \/ vCanadian 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." 9 I M6 N8 ?: y% l! _0 L ( G9 q* L+ N! X3 j) l- L- K. ^2 bMexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. ; Y! _ e! w5 S8 w8 N$ j9 Q, g s H; N( V
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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.