Dick Thompson Work Quotations

During SARS, we worked like hell to contain a global outbreak. Now we're trying to feel our way through this next generation of problems.

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.