China played down the threat of a new swine flu strain with pandemic potential that researchers discovered in pigs, saying the study is 'not representative.'
But China's foreign ministry moved to downplay fears on Wednesday.
The new G4 swine flu strain is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009, according to the study, which was authored by scientists at Chinese universities and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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