Talk:Polio

Semi-protected edit request on 15 January 2017

In the Epidemiology section, please replace the map titled "Reported polio cases in 2015" and the table below it with the map and table for 2016, which can be copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication#2016 47.139.45.248 (talk) 06:13, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Done — Train2104 (talk • contribs) 03:22, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Edit request

Can someone change the following text:

In 2016 polio affected less than 50 people, down from 350,000 cases in 1988.

To...

In 2016 there were 75 reported cases globally, down from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988.

The corrected text reflects what the sources say more accurately, and give context to the region (world wide).

Thanks. --24.182.92.247 (talk) 02:15, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

 Not done according to [1] there were 37 wild + 5 vaccine derived cases. Ruslik_Zero 13:45, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Edit request

Please change the information in the third paragraph so that the facts in the cited webpage(s) and the facts in the article match up.

Here is what the article currently states:

"In 2016, polio affected fewer than 50 people, down from 350,000 cases in 1988."

Neither of the links make the same suggestion. The closest is the WHO webspage, which states specifically:

"Polio cases have decreased by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated 350 000 cases then, to 74 reported cases in 2015."

I made a request earlier, which was turned down. However, the extent of my request was apparently not understood. I will break it down to make it more simple (and let's ignore the fact that I incorrectly suggested 2016 instead of 2015, and 75 instead of 74!).

• The facts in the webpage and the article do not match
• The article states "fewer than 50 people" in 2016.
• The webpage states "74 reported cases" in 2015.
• The article states that polio "affected" fewer than fifty people.
• The website states that there were 74 "reported cases".
• The article does not emphasise a scale.
• The webpage infers a global scale.
• On a different page on the website, the figures tally more correctly with the current text in the article. There is no direct link to the data, and it has to be selected from the database. It states that there were 37 wild cases of polio and 5 vaccine-related cases reported.

You can see that there are, as I see it, multiple issues with the sentence - it's not merely about the uncorrelated figures.

This was quite a lot of effort on my part, in order to make a simple correction. Partly because the article is locked, and partly because an editor just rejected the request without understanding it fully. --24.182.92.247 (talk) 01:38, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

This happened because initially that sentence contained the number of cases in 2015. It was later changed to one in 2016 without changing the sentence. I corrected the sentence to remove some unwarranted conclusions. In addition, if you want to edit semi-protected articles, you can create an account. Ruslik_Zero 20:30, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 March 2017

Please change the sentence "In 2015, cases decreased to 98" to "Cases decreased to 98 in 2015, and further decreased in 2016 to 37 wild cases and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases." (Exact wording is your option; I just want to add the 2016 numbers because we should have the most recent figures.) 47.139.44.241 (talk) 14:03, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Done Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:47, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 March 2017

In the Epidemiology section:

1. Where it says "Reported polio cases in 2016[2][5]", please change [2][5] to a reference to https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx

2. Where it says "In 2015, cases decreased to 98 and further decreased in 2016 to 37 wild cases and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases.[80][81]", please add a reference to https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx

because...

The Epidemiology section has statistics for dates in 2016 with references to documents from before the period covered by the statistics. This is possibly my fault for previously requesting that the statistics be updated without bothering to check the citations.

The references [2][5] were for a table for an earlier year (not 2016). The current table was copied from the separate eradication article and should have the same reference as it does.

The references [80][81] were for the 2015 part of the sentence. The 2016 part of the sentence was recently added as is based on the same 2016 table and therefore should have the same reference. 47.139.40.250 (talk) 05:27, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Done as an addition Power~enwiki (talk) 00:56, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 27 May 2017

Please add the following (mostly copied from the separate polio eradication article) at the end of the Africa section to reflect recent developments related to cVDPV:

In 2017, it was reported that separate new outbreaks caused by cVDPV2 had occurred in southern and east-central provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 47.139.41.108 (talk) 15:27, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Done – Train2104 (t • c) 17:20, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

References

Unintended misrepresentation of statistics?

"In those with muscle weakness [...] 15 to 30 percent of adults die." In fact, 100% of them die. Needs rewording. E.g. "...as a result"