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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People confuse it with pandemic influenza, but they're very different diseases,
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H5N1 has pandemic potential but it is not a pandemic virus.
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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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The world is not very well prepared, ... We think pandemic preparedness is really essential.
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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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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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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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I hope we are not creating a sense of panic... because we need the public's trust to encourage governments to begin or continue pandemic preparedness efforts.
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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.