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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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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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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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.
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There have been four, maybe five cases of humans getting it from other humans,
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We have totally discounted the possibility of an avian influenza infection. But we can't take away the possibility of an appearance in Iraq, as many cases have been reported in Turkey.
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It was not unexpected. There will be sporadic human cases as long as the virus is circulating in animals.
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It was not unexpected, ... There will be sporadic human cases as long as the virus is circulating in animals.
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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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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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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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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.