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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The widespread concern may be bad communication on our part. Millions of animals have been infected and very rarely have humans been infected,
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Bird flu is a disease among animals; it's very difficult for this virus to move from poultry into humans. Our concern is that it will change in a way that will allow it to easily move between humans, and that will trigger a pandemic.
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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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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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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.
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There seems to be a heightened sense of concern about an extraordinarily rare disease. It is very, very, very difficult for humans to acquire, even with direct exposure.
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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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People confuse it with pandemic influenza, but they're very different diseases,
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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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You have to put this in perspective: there have been 180 million birds that have been killed because of this disease and yet we've identified fewer than 200 human cases.
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We think that this is the most reasoned position, ... you could pick almost any number.
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There have been four, maybe five cases of humans getting it from other humans,
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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,