SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Ministry of Farming and Rural Affairs stated on Saturday that the so-called “G4” strain of swine flu infection is not new and does not contaminate or sicken people and animals quickly, rebuffing a study published earlier this week.
That study, by a team of Chinese researchers and released by the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), cautioned that a new swine influenza infection, named G4, has ended up being more contagious to people and might become a possible “pandemic infection”.
Nevertheless, China’s farming ministry stated in a statement that the st