"Thomas Hugh Pennington", Order of the British Empire/CBE, Royal College of Pathologists/FRCPath, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh/FRCP (Edin), Academy of Medical Sciences/FMedSci, Royal Society of Edinburgh/FRSE (born 19 April 1938 in Edgware, Middlesex) is emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Outside academia, he is best known as the chair of the Pennington Group enquiry into the Scottish Escherichia coli outbreak of 1996 and as Chairman of the Public Inquiry into the 2005 Outbreak of E. coli O157 in South Wales.

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It's a property of this virus that it can go into these animals. One just has to watch and see what happens because the virus has the property to evolve.

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This is a very, very serious issue.

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The virus is transmitted by live birds. It's not in the poultry meat and it's certainly not in eggs.

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This is a very nasty virus. It's doing enormous damage in the Far East at the moment, and it's got into Russia. If it got here, it would be economically disastrous, never mind the human impact, so we do need to be spending more than we have been spending.

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The chemical way of keeping water safe does not work with crypto.

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This virus that we're talking about now could be even nastier than that of 1918.

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