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
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We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.
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We are concerned that the virus infects a human that already has contracted a strain of normal influenza and this influenza will mix with this avian form. As a result, a new strain could be formed that the human immune system has never seen before and that would ignite a pandemic.
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The outbreak is in northern Iraq. There are lots of challenges there, largely associated with terrain and weather. It's cold and wet, and there are steep sided valleys that the team is moving through.
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The outbreaks in those areas are being contained, ... There's still disease, but the disease is largely contained in hospitals.
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We're not going to know how lethal the next pandemic is going to be until the pandemic begins. You could pick almost any number.
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We don't have positive confirmation of H5N1 in the girl yet. The laboratory samples should have reached the UK this morning.
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We still urge the elderly and other high-risk groups to be vaccinated.
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What would emerge would be a disease as deadly as avian influenza, which currently has a case fatality rate of over 50%, but that moves as easily as seasonal influenza does from person to person,
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We can confirm that the 15-year-old girl was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus as a result of the London testing.
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We believe those particles are inhaled and that's how people become infected.
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There are a lot of scary stories out there about the next pandemic, but we have to make difficult decisions without a lot of information. The real answer is we don't know until the next pandemic virus appears.
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We know from experience with this drug that it is most effective very shortly after symptoms develop.
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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.
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The point was initially to allow us to have access to these samples. It's not like WHO is trying to prevent scientists everywhere from getting this information.