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TORONTO (AP) – Canadian authorities confirmed Sunday the six cases of swine flu in the province of Nova Scotia, all people who visited Mexico, while it was reported Five other deaths in this Latin American country.
Robert Strang, director of Public Health in the province of Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada, said that four students from the King School #39; s-Edgehill , aged between 12 and 18, are recovering. All these cases were very soft of influenza.
Strang said that no one in Nova Scotia has been hospitalized for this disease and that all students are recovering. The flu was contracted in Mexico, brought here and spread, he said.
At this time we are not seeing serious cases such as those that occurred in Mexico, said Strang. He said that just like what happened in United States' cases of swine flu are very soft.
On the other hand, the mayor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, reported that five more people died in the capital, including two confirmed and three suspected swine flu to have it. 81 This brings to 86 the number of deaths possibly linked to the new virus.
The secretary of health of the capital, Armando Ahued, said the new victims died on Saturday night in different hospitals after the federal government took stock of 20 confirmed dead and 61 swine flu suspected of being infected.
In Wellington, New Zealand's government said on Sunday that 10 students probably entered the swine influenza virus during a school trip to Mexico.
A group of 10 students who recently traveled to Mexico were positive on an analysis of influenza and possible cases of swine flu could be treated, said the New Zealand health minister.
Tony Ryall said it was not safe for students to swine flu, but health authorities took precautions for . The official reported on Sunday that no one was seriously ill and still recovering, after having some symptoms.
He added that tests were conducted at 13 high school students who returned from Mexico early hours of Saturday and that 10 of them were positive. The test results were sent to the laboratory of the World Health Organization in Melbourne, Australia.
Governments in different parts of Asia began to quarantine those who suffer symptoms of the virus Lethal and issued warnings to their citizens to refrain from trips to Mexico.
In Israel, the Ministry of Health said it had filed a case that might be swine flu. A man who visited Mexico recently was hospitalized with flu symptoms. The authorities have not yet been ascertained whether this really is swine flu.
In France, the government said Sunday that three possible cases of swine flu are under investigation.
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