China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Saturday that the G4 swine flu virus is not new and does not easily infect humans and animals.

This week, a study was published about this G4 swine flu virus, which has been rejected by the Chinese government.

However, an earlier study about the G4 swine flu virus was prepared by a team of Chinese scientists and published by the American Science Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In this study, it was warned that this new swine flu virus named G4 is contagious to humans and there is a danger of it turning into a pandemic virus.

However, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has said in its statement that this study was presented in the media in a non-factual way.

According to the analysis of the Ministry of Agriculture, the scale of the samples collected to publish the study paper was very small, as well as the article lacked sufficient evidence to show that the G4 virus is affecting pigs.

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