Dick Thompson
Dick Thompson
Richard KnightThompson, Jr.was an American racecar driver. A Washington, D.C. dentist by trade, he is known as "The Flying Dentist". He won numerous Sports Car Club of Americachampionships and was inducted in the Corvette Hall of Fame. Thompson brought credibility to the Corvette as a world-class sports car. Active from the late 1950s until the 1970s, Thompson raced for several notable racers, including the factory Corvette team for John Fitch and Briggs Cunningham...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth9 July 1920
carry dipping hopefully money
Now we're dipping into other funds. Hopefully as more money comes in, we'll be able to carry on more activities.
human move stress
Should this move from human to human -- and it hasn't yet, I want to stress that -- then it's going to be a real challenge.
confuse disease pandemic people
People confuse it with pandemic influenza, but they're very different diseases,
animals bad communication concern humans infected millions rarely widespread
The widespread concern may be bad communication on our part. Millions of animals have been infected and very rarely have humans been infected,
animals birds cases difficult disease human millions move
Tens of millions of birds have been affected. But there have been only about 117 human cases in two years, ... This is a very difficult disease to move from animals to humans.
almost pick
We think that this is the most reasoned position, ... you could pick almost any number.
cases five humans maybe
There have been four, maybe five cases of humans getting it from other humans,
acting cats hosts infected range unusual virus
This is a virus that isn't acting in a predictable way. It's unusual that cats would be infected at all. The range of hosts here is unusual for an avian virus.
samples sent
This is not confirmation for us. We need to have samples sent to a certified laboratory.
pandemic progress step vaccine
This is progress and an important step in pandemic vaccine development.
contain generation global hell next trying worked
During SARS, we worked like hell to contain a global outbreak. Now we're trying to feel our way through this next generation of problems.
anywhere disease exists threat
As long as this disease exists anywhere that it's a threat everywhere,
against cause change exactly pandemic possible vaccine virus work
We know we're overdue for an influenza pandemic strain, and we know it will occur, but we don't know when or even exactly what virus will cause it. It is possible that the virus won't be H5N1 at all or that this virus will change in a way so that the vaccine under development doesn't work against it.
effective experience symptoms
We know from experience with this drug that it is most effective very shortly after symptoms develop.