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The 2014 version of this article has passed academic peer review (here), has been published in Open Medicine and can be cited as: Heilman JM, De Wolff J, Beards GM, Basden BJ (2014). "Dengue fever: a Wikipedia clinical review". Open Medicine. 8 (4): 105–115. PMC 4242787. PMID 25426178. |
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diarrhea ia a symptoms?[edit]
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
Mechanism behind ADE[edit]
Dear Sirs,
Although there is a statement "The exact mechanism behind ADE is unclear.", in my recent paper
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep44016
I have written as follows:
"To our knowledge, this is the first report to identify the genes downstream from ADE-DENV using a bioinformatic (meta) analysis rather than experiments."
Is it possible for anyone to modify the statement "The exact mechanism behind ADE is unclear." such that reflects the result of my paper?
Y-h. Taguchi, the author of the above paper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tag (talk • contribs) 23:14, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for your note. Content about health in WP is generally sourced to reviews, not to research papers. This is described in WP:MEDRS. Jytdog (talk) 23:24, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
Wolbachia update[edit]
Could this article be updated with the latest progress in this area [1] --FDent (talk) 11:34, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
- Exciting and interesting but quite speculative at this point. As the author states near the end of the commentary, in referring to unknowns about spread of Wolbachia in the real world, "
The extent to which this matters will in turn depend on the local epidemiology of dengue viruses and whether patches of Wolbachia-free mosquitoes have a substantial effect on the burden of disease in the human population.
" Might be worth adding to Research, but one should note that this commentary was published as a companion to this article by Schmidt et al in the same journal - i.e. this is not an independent review article but rather a commentary solicited by the editors who chose the primary research for publiction (there is a conflict of interest to consider). I suggest waiting to see if an unconflicted review article provides evidence of notability. — soupvector (talk) 20:33, 21 January 2018 (UTC)- We have a section in the article on the topic Dengue_fever#Wolbachia. What do you suggest adding / changing? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:12, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
References
- ^ Jiggins, FM (June 1, 2017). "The spread of Wolbachia through mosquito populations". PLoS Biol. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
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Dengue[edit]
In 1959 less than 1,000 cases of Dengue where reported world wide. Now as estimated 20 other vector-born disease have also emerged during this time due to ecological changes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.94.248.208 (talk) 20:54, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
- Do you have sources for your assertion? Also, are you proposing that the article should be changed? JFW | T@lk 21:42, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Per instructed?[edit]
Were are the instructions to move the template? Anyway have adjusted to just leave the little icon in the right upper corner. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:58, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
NSAIDs and dengue fever[edit]
@Doc James: The lead sentence about the NSAID contraindication violated WP:NPOV (specifically, WP:WikiVoice/WP:ASSERT since this statement was unattributed) prior to my recent edit. Feel free to tweak the wording that I used in my edit; however, if you remove the explicit attribution of the medical advice/opinion in this sentence, the ensuing discussion about your revert will take place at WP:NPOV/Noticeboard, not here. Since the lead statement about this is currently more verbose than the analogous statement in the body, I'd be fine with swapping the lead/body sentences about NSAIDs and bleeding. The current sentence in the body about NSAIDs does not express an opinion, so it does not need to be reworded.
I'm going to go through this article sometime soon to address issues with images sandwiching article text (WP:SANDWICH/WP:SANDWICHING) and other violations of WP:WikiVoice/WP:ASSERT. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 23:45, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
- Fixing the text sandwiching between staggered images:
Done - Checking for other issues with WP:WikiVoice:
Pending - Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 00:46, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
My opinion is that the statement that was in the lead before is not only policy-compliant, it is preferable for a lead. The statement is uncontroversial and needs no attribution; adding the attribution only clutters the lead. At any rate, I have started a DRAFT RFC at Wikipedia:Request for comment on tone in medical writing. Please discuss how to improve the wording of the RFC on its talk page, and please let's not launch it prematurely. I will launch it once we know we have it framed in a way that will result in community consensus. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:00, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- @SandyGeorgia: I'm ok with doing an RFC on this. Once you've created it, it would be a good idea to post a notice about the RFC at WT:NPOV and WT:MED, as a consensus that medical opinions do not require attribution would necessitate changes to WP:NPOV. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 01:38, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- If you will reread my post above, you will see that I did create it, and that we should work on framing it BEFORE it is launched community-wide. (not my first rodeo :) Please add comments on talk regarding the framing of the RFC. (I will point out that I added example number 6 as one that I think should be attributed, because it goes against conventional wisdom and could cause harm.) It is your opinion that changes to NPOV would be needed; that is because you have a different view on opinion vs. fact than some others. I added example 5 to help you see the inconsistency in the stance you take at one article vs. another. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:53, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- What I meant when I said "Once you've created it" was exactly the same thing that you were referring to when you said "it is launched community-wide"; i.e., once you start the RFC, not a start writing a draft RFC. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 02:13, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Have adjusted to "Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is recommended instead of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for fever reduction and pain relief in dengue due to an increased risk of bleeding from NSAID use."
As no one contradicts this statement IMO it can be said in the voice of Wikipedia without explicit attribution. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:47, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- Agree, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:53, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
- Also agree. Rewording it was a much simpler solution. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 02:53, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 18 August 2018[edit]
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Please correct image 'Dengue fever deaths per million persons in 2012'. It is not correct. The WHO data linked to image does not correspond to the data shown on the map. For example Ireland had no Dengue deaths in 2012. Degle101 (talk) 17:09, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Agree User:Degle101 the ref says there were zero cases in Ireland. User:Chris55 can you fix? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
- I've checked the Dengue deaths in Ireland from the WHO data and they correspond with the spreadsheet available from the WHO. This has arisen before with developed countries having a hotspot with essentially tropical diseases: the statistics measure the countries in which the people died, not necessarily where they contracted the disease. The incidence (37 deaths) does seem high but it corresponds to 8 per million. Note that the numbers that appear in the spreadsheet are rounded to 1 decimal place so Ireland appears as 0.0 but this is misleading. It is actually 0.037 (thousand). Chris55 (talk) 20:17, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
- I'd make two other points: 1. This map has been there at least 2 years and there is no suggestion of vandalism so the semi-protected request is unjustified. 2. The ECDC statistics on Dengue seem totally at variance with the WHO figures. They claim 7 cases in 2012 (deaths not recorded). The French case is more puzzling: 110 cases in 2012 with WHO reporting 0; Germany had 616 cases but didn't report to the WHO. (Thailand seems to be the main culprit.) These are not deaths so could be consistent although the Irish case cannot be. I'm not a medical person and Doc James would be better to take this up with the WHO. Chris55 (talk) 20:52, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
urgent[edit]
Article states: Deaths ~20,000[6] This figure is nowhere to be seen on the cited source . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.170.149.102 (talk) 06:09, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
Article is protected, it would be helpfull if one of you will add the following info to the table on the right. Under Frequency. "50 to 528 million per year... of which 96 million display signs of severity". Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5001629/ It is important to distinguish between dengue (a flu like disease) and severe dengue (lethal) --Thip (talk) 23:26, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
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