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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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,

— Dick Thompson

All of these have been in Asia. But it is important to note that it was not passed on to more humans. The chain ended at those four or five who caught it.

— Dick Thompson

We're not going to know how lethal the next pandemic is going to be until the pandemic begins. You could pick almost any number.

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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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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,

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