Abstract: A important respiratory disease that has significantly impacted global public health is the H3N2 virus, also known as influenza A subtype H3N2 (Lina et al., 2017). This virus has produced numerous epidemics and pandemics since it first appeared in the late 1960s, causing enormous morbidity and mortality. Effective prevention and control measures require a thorough understanding of the H3N2 virus' epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical effects. Epidemiology: The influenza a virus subtype H3N2 is a member of the Orthomyxoviridae family. Due to its enormous genetic heterogeneity, it can avoid host immunological responses and frequently experience antigenic drift. The present study title: “A study to assess the knowledge regarding H3N2 among people residing in selected urban areas of Pune City” Material and method: In this study we used quantitative research approach. An exploratory pre-test post-test design was selected as the investigation's study methodology. The non-probability convenient sampling technique was used. The sample consist of 200 among people in selected urban areas of Pune city who had fulfilled the inclusion criteria of the study in order to assess the knowledge regarding care of patients with stroke. The reliability of tool was done on 20 participants the value was 0.9758 and tool found reliable. Result: The study mentioned above reveals that according to the study mentioned above, 50% of samples had strong knowledge, 43% had average knowledge, and 7% had low knowledge. The average score was 10.22 with a 2.66 SD. Conclusion: It was concluded that As a result, this topic needs to be included in the courses on community health nursing and medical surgical nursing. Health care practitioners should place more emphasis on health education to raise awareness of H3N2 in the population.

Assess, Knowledge, People