Best sites to log on to for swine flu news

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New Delhi: Monday's Google search trend shows that swine flu was the most searched word in India on the Internet, with search for the facemask - N95 mask - coming a close second. Till Tuesday afternoon, most of India was still googling for these along with Nilgiri oil - apparently used in preventing swine flu.

Clearly, swine flu is talk of the town and if you want to brush up your knowledge of the swine flu virus, you can trust the following websites for a crash course:

• Flu.gov
• Central for Disease Control and Prevention's site
• World Health Organisation's website

After a brush up you need to track the swine flu news. Dedicated news websites like:

• Swine influenza (FLu) News

For some interactive ways to learn about swine flu, slideshows like the one on:

• X-Plain.com
• online tracking maps highlight things like confirmed and suspected cases of swine flu

Some other interesting links are:

• Healthmap.org

Both these sites can even be tracked on twitter.

For websites focusing only on India you can log onto:

• SwineFluIndia.org - it gives you a complete know how of the flu
• Swine Flu India lists out important information like hospitals one has to approach in case of any swine flu attack

Finally you can even log on to IBNLive's microsite - for news on the virus and to chat with expert doctors.

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