TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu.+ r' H# j! S8 \) s' |5 }
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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.6 ]/ R5 ~1 ^* c7 A' A
: k* k4 C4 p" [; n* A. c) {Canadian 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."* y2 |; R+ v3 o9 I) R2 i
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Mexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. 9 w5 i' p; x* o$ }& q) O; W1 T" n5 p- \/ [6 @% _
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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.
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