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Influenza cases: Maha reports 249 H3N2 and 417 H1N1 cases in 2023
Updated On: 22 March, 2023 11:08 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Meanwhile, on Thursday, March 16, a 73-year-old man with comorbidities, who had also tested positive for the H3N2 virus, died in a civic-run hospital in Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial town in Pune district of Maharashtra
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A release by the Maharashtra government on Thursday showed that the state reported 3,11,193 suspected influenza cases in 2023 (From January 1 to March 21). Among them, 1777 suspected flu patients were given oseltamivir -- an antiviral medication used to treat and prevent influenza A and influenza B, viruses that cause the flu.
It further shows that the number of infected patients of H1N1 and H3N2 during the same period are 417 and 249, respectively. While three deaths are reported due to H1N1 infection, whereas one H3N2 suspected death is also reported.
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