TORONTO (AP) — Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu." E6 K3 `9 G0 N3 Q3 _! Q
* V$ b3 h5 E4 H( ?+ A5 I+ q6 X3 rChief 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. @" \. m% I9 H! K- d 8 Z+ M! @7 x% r5 K& w+ e3 ]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.". Y. @- x: o/ W8 V
" T9 i, [$ l8 E9 y( DMexico's health minister says the disease has killed up to 86 people and likely sickened more than 1,400 since April 13. / E' `7 F U2 ~. d; |1 K( ^" B - a- U. `' b, ] G. \; X[ 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.