Talk:Dengue fever

List of countries

Is it really necessary to list ALL the individual countries? let's just say that it occurs in the tropical area, and especially the carribean region. I live in martinique FWI and I am sick with the dengue RIGHT NOW.

Dengue endemic in Bolivia

Your map shows dengue practically absent from Bolivia, but there is an epidemic here. Recently flooding has made things much worse. (RHF)

diarrhea ia a symptoms?

Diarrhea ia a symptoms? Only Wikipedia stated this. Anyone please advice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.184.144.199 (talk • contribs) 07:17, 5 January 2010

Scientific American resource, regarding Genetically modified organism(s),

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-wipeout-gene The Wipeout Gene] ... "A new breed of genetically modified mosquitoes carries a gene that cripples its own offspring. They could crush native mosquito populations and block the spread of disease. And they are already in the air—though that's been a secret" by Bijal P. Trivedi SciAm October 24, 2011 97.87.29.188 (talk) 22:26, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes. The reason the article doesn't mention this is the lack of secondary sources. A news report in Scientific American is probably not sufficient. None of the reviews currently cited makes any mention of this approach. JFW | T@lk 22:57, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

What of this from Nature (journal) http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v305/n5/full/scientificamerican1111-68.html referencing doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1111-68 305, 68 - 75 (2011) published online: 18 October 2011 99.181.138.228 (talk) 05:39, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Please read WP:MEDRS. JFW | T@lk 07:10, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

I had temporary access to all seven webpage, then the subscription page kicked-in. Maybe free access will be soon ... until then, I got (author) Bijal P. Trivedi is an award-winning writer who focuses on biology, the environment and medicine. She studied molecular biology and biochemistry at Oberlin College and at the University of California, Los Angeles. on "page 7". 97.87.29.188 (talk) 00:21, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

You have clearly not read WP:MEDRS. JFW | T@lk 20:08, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

I've got access to the seven wepages. Here is an excerpt from page 2 ...

(Luke) Alphey founded Oxitec in 2002 to capitalize on the technology. In 2005 the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, funded in large part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, granted James $20 million to test genetic strategies against dengue. (Anthony) James gave Oxitec $5 million to build the mosquitoes.

Page 5 ...

While all this slow scientific and community work was going on in Mexico, Alphey was quietly taking a dramatically different approach. Last November he arrived at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene with a surprising story to tell. Beginning in September 2009, Alphey said, Oxitec had been releasing genetically modified mosquitoes on Grand Cayman island in the Caribbean. (The mosquitoes are similar to the ones being tested in Tapachula, but not identical—in the Cayman strain, both male and female mosquitoes die as larvae.) Between May and October of 2010 Oxitec released more than three million male mosquitoes, he revealed, which cut the indigenous A. aegypti population by 80 percent. The data have been submitted for publication.

Also see Malaysia and Juazeiro (Bahia) 99.181.135.155 (talk) 05:55, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Please provide a secondary source that considers this line of research to be promising. Once again, please show that this source satisfies WP:MEDRS. JFW | T@lk 20:36, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Contradiction in epidemiology section?

The article says:

The mortality is 1–5% without treatment,[5] and less than 1% with adequate treatment;[23] however severe disease carries a mortality of 26%.[5] [...] It infects 50 to 100 million people worldwide a year, leading to [...] approximately 12,500–25,000 deaths.

Based on 50-100 million infections per year and 12,500–25,000 deaths, I would estimate a mortality of 0.01%-0.05%, yet the first sentence says "less than 1%". I suppose technically this is not a contradiction, but widely misleading; it's like saying the Eiffel Tower is taller than 15 meters. AxelBoldt (talk) 22:49, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

We are just going by what the best available evidence says.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:01, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Well, right now the paragraph is formulated as if it were a list of facts, with their respective references. But since those "facts" are contradictory, it would be better to alert the reader to this, e.g. "estimations of mortality differ widely among recent publications:..." It's also possible that the word "mortality" in the first sentence refers only to severe cases or hospitalized cases or infections resulting in symptoms, in which case it would be even more important to alert the reader. AxelBoldt (talk) 22:57, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Edit request on 17 February 2012

Please change the section labeled "Viral Reproduction" to "Viral Replication" as viruses cannot reproduce and this title is misleading. Viruses cannot produce another copy of themselves; they can only bind to a host and have it produce copies for them.

Nxtfari (talk) 04:19, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Y Done --andy4789 ★ · (talk? contribs?) 13:07, 17 February 2012 (UTC)