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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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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There have been four, maybe five cases of humans getting it from other humans,
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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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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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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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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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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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People confuse it with pandemic influenza, but they're very different diseases,