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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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We can confirm that the 15-year-old girl was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus as a result of the London testing.
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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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H5N1 has pandemic potential but it is not a pandemic virus.
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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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That was an extreme of an already rare event. Pandemics normally have more modest death rates.
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That's because we looked at what happened in the 1918 pandemic. That caused the greatest number of deaths ever recorded from an infectious disease in a single year, by far. More than the black plague, more than any other infectious disease,