- It was identified through surveillance of influenza viruses in pigs through a study carried out from 2011 to 2018 in ten provinces of China.
- It can grow and multiply in the cells that line the human airways.
- It has the capability of binding to human-type receptors (like, the SARS-CoV-2 virus).
- Named G4, scientists believe that it has descended from the H1N1 strain that was responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
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