At least 24 people died of influenza in Nepal's remote north-west Humla region in the past days, Radio Nepal reported Friday, according to DPA. The dead had suffered from acute cold and coughing - believed to be influenza although the disease has not yet been officially diagnosed, the report said. The district was short of medicines to treat the ill. Humla has been in the grip of unusual cold during the past few days, Radio Nepal said quoting local residents in the region about 450 kilometres north-west of Kathmandu.
