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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From our point of view, Iraqi authorities have done a very good job in responding to the outbreak and have been very transparent about what is known about the human disease.
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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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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.
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Now we're dipping into other funds. Hopefully as more money comes in, we'll be able to carry on more activities.
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We cannot let our guard down until this disease is put back in a box.
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What this virus can't do now is move easily from person to person. We worry that it could develop this characteristic of human-to-human transmission.
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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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There is definitely concern about Egypt. In a relatively short period of time we have what is really a large number of cases.
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Those viruses are in a WHO reference laboratory and are being studied.
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There have been something like 180 million birds that have died either directly from the disease or been culled because they were exposed to it. Yet it's taken us all this time -- more than two years, almost three years now -- to cross this barrier.
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We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.
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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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The world is not very well prepared, ... We think pandemic preparedness is really essential.