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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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 keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.
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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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But the risk is pretty much the same as it has been, it is very low to humans, but we're worried about the transformation of the virus into a human pandemic strain.
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H5N1 has pandemic potential but it is not a pandemic virus.
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People confuse it with pandemic influenza, but they're very different diseases,
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This is progress and an important step in pandemic vaccine development.
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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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I hope we are not creating a sense of panic... because we need the public's trust to encourage governments to begin or continue pandemic preparedness efforts.
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The world is not very well prepared, ... We think pandemic preparedness is really essential.
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When the virus shows up in a new country, it doesn't mean that the pandemic has started, it means that the animal disease has spread.
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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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Surveillance and response of H5N1 in both animals and humans needs to be strengthened in all regions bordering countries where outbreaks have been identified.