New Swine Flu Cases Confirmed In British Columbia Canada

Health officials confirmed Tuesday that they have found three new cases of the swine flu virus in British Columbia. Of the three infected people two of them had traveled to Mexico recently but the other had not. After counting these three cases the number of confirmed swine flu (Mexican flu) in British Columbia has risen to six. All six of the cases seen in British Columbia have been very mild in nature.

Officials in Canada wanted to stress the fact that all of these cases, as well as all cases in Canada have been extremely mild with only one individual being hospitalized for a very short period of time. Health officials also wanted to add that they have not seen any evidence that suggests that the swine flu is easily transmitted from person to person but that it is clear that it can be passed from person to person.

British Columbia, despite not having very many confirmed cases, is taking precautions by holding onto over 500,000 anti-viral doses that could be used to fight the swine flu

The trend of most of the infected people being ones that were in Mexico continues to follow the pattern that we have seen worldwide up to this point with very few swine outbreaks among people that haven’t been to Mexico.