New Delhi: With the confirmation of India's first two deaths from the H3N2 influenza virus, experts are calling for intensified monitoring and precautionary steps to combat the spread of the disease.
Hire Gowda, 82, a diabetic and hypertensive from Karnataka, passed away on March 1 from complications related to the H3N2 seasonal influenza subtype. A second fatality, a 56-year-old lung cancer patient, was reported from Haryana.