The order in which schools will receive the vaccine can be found on the city's flu Web site.
Kelly Mason, a public affairs spokeswoman for Google, said the company's Flu Trends site was meant to be only one source in addition to the C.D.C. and other flu surveillance methods.
LOS ANGELES — The top public health official in Los Angeles County stood at a swine flu vaccination site in Compton, Calif., on Tuesday and gently told elderly residents that they really ought to go home.
New Yorkers can find the nearest clinic on the city's flu information Web site, nyc.gov/flu.
The philanthropic arm of Google offers Flu Trends, a site that provides up-to-date estimates of influenza activity in 20 countries of the Pacific Rim and Europe (4 ) by using data mining techniques to find good predictors of historic influenza indicators (1 ).
Mawmaw gets on the computer and searches for "elephant + flu," but the sites aren't especially helpful.
Many businesses provide on-site flu shots, and some hospitals have told staff members that they have to wear masks if they do not get the vaccine.
Henry L. Niman, who runs a Web site tracking flu mutations, complained that many swine sequences are posted by American universities and in Mexico only on private databases.
Although the health department began gradually posting detailed charts, graphs and instructional material about swine flu on its Web site last spring, the public seemed mostly unaware of that resource, Ms. Waltman said, and instead got information from news reports.
The fact that the girl had a resistant strain without being treated suggests that she caught an already resistant virus from someone else, presumably in Northern California, said Henry L. Niman, who runs a Web site tracking flu mutations (recombinomics.com).com
