Talk:Lymphatic filariasis/Archive 1

Merge

I think we should merge it and have elephantiasis as a section under lymphatic filariasis. Or vice versa. Cheese1756 (talk) 22:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Cheese1756

Ok, on second thought, I'm siding with the Don't merge crowd. Lymphatic filariasis need not lead to Elephantiasis. Elephantiasis is a result of untreated filariasis, and so is a separate thing. If there is redundancy in the two articles, however, I'm all for removing the redundancy and using internal links to redirect to the appropriate page. No need to reexplain Elephantiasis on the filariasis page, nor to reexplain filariasis on the Elephantiasis page. Clean up is all that's needed. Mba123 (talk) 21:07, 15 May 2009 (UTC)Mba123

Diagnosis: Why blood is collected at night.

It's not clear why the blood is collected at night so I looked it up. It's because the early life-stage worms are nocturnal and are active at night. http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/lymphaticfilariasis/gen_info/faqs.html

I couldn't figure out how to include that explanation in there, without messing up the other references. Alliwalk (talk) 21:05, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Very interesting. Thanks and will add User:Alliwalk. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:06, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Podoconiosis

The article says that podoconiosis is not an infectious disease; how can it be eliminated? Should it be in this article? HLHJ (talk) 19:22, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

could use a rewrite Comment

I am not up for that right now. I did work on this a little fixing references. Also changed the red link to note that a page exists on the German wiki Elinruby (talk) 11:42, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Map

This map shows countries with cases in 2014.

Can we get a version under an open license?

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:07, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Kiribati

The disease has been eliminated in Kiribati, see: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/400522/success-story-kiribati-eliminates-elephantiasis — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.32.59.179 (talk) 03:07, 10 October 2019 (UTC)