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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Surveillance and response of H5N1 in both animals and humans needs to be strengthened in all regions bordering countries where outbreaks have been identified.
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Pigs are known to be able to be infected with both avian and human viruses, and they too can serve as mixing vessels, just like humans.
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I think it's significant because it draws our attention to the fact that this is a very, very difficult disease to get for humans.
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It is always worrying to have a new case in a new country because it raises concerns among the public. But we have to understand that so far this is just one case.
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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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That was an extreme of an already rare event. Pandemics normally have more modest death rates.
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We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.
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The crisis ... may seem more intense now because birds in Europe have become infected.
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There is really no time frame. As long as the virus is circulating it could jump into humans.
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We need to identify the source of this child's exposure. It has to be in the environment somewhere and we need to identify that before going ahead in assessing control or (bird) elimination efforts.
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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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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 believe those particles are inhaled and that's how people become infected.