Boston is creating a vaccination map by listing the names of residents who already had flu shots. To facilitate the task, the city is tapping technology by using a method usually tried for disaster monitoring.

All residents who get inoculated with flu vaccine will receive a bracelet with an ID code that contains data of the person and the shot, which will be logged in a handheld device

The United States pledged an additional $320 million to the global bird flu fight, warning on Saturday that complacency in fighting the virus could lead to a deadly pandemic.

Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, announced the additional $320 million Saturday at the opening of a conference in Egypt on bird flu attended by ministers of 60 nations

Scientists at the University of Maryland have created a new vaccine that can protect birds, animals and humans from the deadly bird flu virus.

The team led by Prof. Daniel Perez also created a technique to deliver the vaccine based on the H9N1, a weaker strain of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, in bird eggs so that the disease will not spread if the bird flies to other areas

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is giving flu shots a greater push in an effort to stop influenza from becoming a pandemic. The CDC awarded $24 million that would finance 55 anti-flu projects in 29 state and local public health departments.

The center recommended flu vaccination for 30 million American children from 6 months to 18 years earlier this year, hiking the number of people required to get the influenza vaccination to 261 million or 84 percent of the U.S. population

Scientists claim they have found a new strain of avian flu, the H9N2 virus, which could mutate to become more easily transmissible among humans and trigger a possible bird flu pandemic.

According to a study published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, the avian influenza strain found in Nigeria is genetically different from previous African outbreaks