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Could be the ascariasis make typhoid fever?
I am seriously against merging this article with the article about the pathogen which causes this disease. A disease and a pathogen are distinct things, and should be treated as such, as is the standard for other infectious disease articles. OcciMoron 17:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I redirected here from Large roundworm of pigs which said that "Ascaris suum is a parasitic nematode that causes Ascariasis in pigs" - meanwhile the top of This page says "Ascariasis is a human disease"...
Clarification? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.71.82.44 ( talk) 12:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Agree. 88.230.22.89 ( talk) 06:12, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Ascaris Lumb. is Human parasites. Ascaris Suum is Swine parasites. 88.232.147.199 ( talk) 18:41, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
I don't think it makes sense to use the same Ascaris photo on this page and also on the Ascaris page. If this page is meant to be about the disease then I would either show a disease photo (photo inside of the human body for example) or the life cycle image (which is currently futher down). The same will apply to the other pages on helminths. I actually think the life cycle image should in each case appear on both pages: the page about the organism (this is the organism's way of life) and on the page of the disease (this is how it infects humans). Do others agree? EvM-Susana ( talk) 12:36, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
I deleted it because in my opinion we should not repeat the same image on the organism page and on the disease page. I have an alternative image of Ascaris which I could upload and replace that one with. For a disease that is affecting 2-3 billion people (helminthiasis), we have a disappointingly low number of photos of the organism and of the damage that it causes in people's bodies! I think more and different photos would help to attract more attention to this problem. EvM-Susana ( talk) 13:50, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
I am suggesting to remove this sentence (or indicate that a reference is needed) (I don't know how to do this): One study indicated that the prevalence of ascariasis in the United States at about 4 million (2%).
And I suggest to remove this as it's an isolated incidence and basically irrelevant:
Society and culture[edit source | editbeta] In Canada in 1970, a postgraduate student tainted his roommates' food with Ascaris suum. Four of the people became seriously ill; two of these had acute respiratory failure.[29]
I have just moved information to here from the organism article Ascaris lumbricoides. Now we still need to check if this has introduced repetition. I don't understand why people working on the organism page keep insisting that it should include information on diagnosis and treatment which are clearly medical topics and not "microbiology topics", see talk page of Ascaris lumbricoides. Why would people be keen to double up the information on two pages? EvMsmile ( talk) 01:10, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
Wanted to get some input on this... The "Alternative Medicine" section makes statements regarding the effectiveness of unproven treatments; at least that's how it seems. Can anyone provide solid evidence of these statements? If there is proof, the treatments are no longer (or shouldn't be, anyway) "alternative". If not, I'd suggest they be removed or modified to emphasize the lack of proof. Mostly because the information is incorrect; but moreover, I don't want someone affected by this to see it and delay proper treatment. Thanks Shamalamadingdomg ( talk) 10:48, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
Should the term "infestation" be used instead of "infection" ? - 85.233.9.44 05:21, 27 September 2021
Not sure that the current X-ray image, interesting as it is when studied closely, "works" as a lead image, not least because when it pops up over a wikilink to this page, it appears as a small blurry incomprehensible smudge. I'd suggest swapping it out for one of the other images in the article, say the first image in the main text. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 14:42, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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Could be the ascariasis make typhoid fever?
I am seriously against merging this article with the article about the pathogen which causes this disease. A disease and a pathogen are distinct things, and should be treated as such, as is the standard for other infectious disease articles. OcciMoron 17:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I redirected here from Large roundworm of pigs which said that "Ascaris suum is a parasitic nematode that causes Ascariasis in pigs" - meanwhile the top of This page says "Ascariasis is a human disease"...
Clarification? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.71.82.44 ( talk) 12:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Agree. 88.230.22.89 ( talk) 06:12, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Ascaris Lumb. is Human parasites. Ascaris Suum is Swine parasites. 88.232.147.199 ( talk) 18:41, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
I don't think it makes sense to use the same Ascaris photo on this page and also on the Ascaris page. If this page is meant to be about the disease then I would either show a disease photo (photo inside of the human body for example) or the life cycle image (which is currently futher down). The same will apply to the other pages on helminths. I actually think the life cycle image should in each case appear on both pages: the page about the organism (this is the organism's way of life) and on the page of the disease (this is how it infects humans). Do others agree? EvM-Susana ( talk) 12:36, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
I deleted it because in my opinion we should not repeat the same image on the organism page and on the disease page. I have an alternative image of Ascaris which I could upload and replace that one with. For a disease that is affecting 2-3 billion people (helminthiasis), we have a disappointingly low number of photos of the organism and of the damage that it causes in people's bodies! I think more and different photos would help to attract more attention to this problem. EvM-Susana ( talk) 13:50, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
I am suggesting to remove this sentence (or indicate that a reference is needed) (I don't know how to do this): One study indicated that the prevalence of ascariasis in the United States at about 4 million (2%).
And I suggest to remove this as it's an isolated incidence and basically irrelevant:
Society and culture[edit source | editbeta] In Canada in 1970, a postgraduate student tainted his roommates' food with Ascaris suum. Four of the people became seriously ill; two of these had acute respiratory failure.[29]
I have just moved information to here from the organism article Ascaris lumbricoides. Now we still need to check if this has introduced repetition. I don't understand why people working on the organism page keep insisting that it should include information on diagnosis and treatment which are clearly medical topics and not "microbiology topics", see talk page of Ascaris lumbricoides. Why would people be keen to double up the information on two pages? EvMsmile ( talk) 01:10, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
Wanted to get some input on this... The "Alternative Medicine" section makes statements regarding the effectiveness of unproven treatments; at least that's how it seems. Can anyone provide solid evidence of these statements? If there is proof, the treatments are no longer (or shouldn't be, anyway) "alternative". If not, I'd suggest they be removed or modified to emphasize the lack of proof. Mostly because the information is incorrect; but moreover, I don't want someone affected by this to see it and delay proper treatment. Thanks Shamalamadingdomg ( talk) 10:48, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
Should the term "infestation" be used instead of "infection" ? - 85.233.9.44 05:21, 27 September 2021
Not sure that the current X-ray image, interesting as it is when studied closely, "works" as a lead image, not least because when it pops up over a wikilink to this page, it appears as a small blurry incomprehensible smudge. I'd suggest swapping it out for one of the other images in the article, say the first image in the main text. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 14:42, 9 March 2024 (UTC)