TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu. 8 y1 Q5 g7 p- [% B9 t7 n ^ E# w B5 N1 A( W& D/ b6 F1 \' g
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. 9 l$ Q' s5 c$ i3 x. T) ]- I 4 f% D4 B1 e( M k$ cCanadian 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.") E6 c. j0 W# z
$ W3 I# T9 U) i/ B) QMexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. / `2 f! Q$ Q. |" m , D- q' M4 m0 W0 J& M; w[ 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.