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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Taking it on a trip is certainly not recommended.
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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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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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We believe those particles are inhaled and that's how people become infected.
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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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We know from experience with this drug that it is most effective very shortly after symptoms develop.
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We still urge the elderly and other high-risk groups to be vaccinated.
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The crisis ... may seem more intense now because birds in Europe have become infected.
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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.
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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 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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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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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 believe and are very concerned that this virus -- which is now widely circulating in the environment and moving west -- has the potential to ignite a pandemic.