"Children are especially at risk because they don't understand the danger posed by sick or dead birds," explained Sansanee Seetangkham, 15, the head of her local Bird Flu Busters group.
It is now too late for Mr Milburn to argue that the local difficulties the flu always causes should be kept in perspective.
Rules published by a township in the north-eastern province of Jilin last July ban the release of any information about bird-flu cases without authorisation from the local government's bird-flu prevention office.Ever fearful of the growing power of social media, police have been rounding up people they say have used such tools to spread rumours about H7N9.
This job would be difficult enough in any big city panicked about, let's say, the local supply of swine flu vaccine.
Hong Kong has had a half dozen outbreaks of flu in local birds since 1997, when 18 people were infected and six of them died.
Initially, in response to flu worries, local church officials mulled over measures forbidding worshippers from kissing the reliquary containing what they believe is the blood of San Gennaro, as he is known here, a local bishop martyred in 305.
The GP Fay Wilson, GP, Birmingham I run an out-of-hours service dealing with swine flu when local surgeries are closed, as well as dealing with the overspill from them during the day.
The vigil was mourning Tyriece Watson, better known as Lor Scoota, a west Baltimore rapper who was much beloved in the city, especially for Bird Flu, a local hit which he released in 2014.
Mayor Jerry Pelayo welcomed the support of UNICEF and CCP and indicated his government's willingness to intensify its local campaign against bird flu in schools and communities.
The case of a Westchester County man who survived an extremely rare case of avian flu last fall has local, state and federal health officials grappling with a troubling mystery.
