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I have checked into what the National Lab in Winnipeg has published after an individual placed NML in the place of USAMRIID for the Vaccine research. I had originally included two reference to USAMRIID's work which had never been removed.
The second reference is a non-fiction book about smallpox, but it does give background about Peter Jahrling, a co-authour of the above article (reference).
I checked to be sure that the NML had not published anything on Lassa Vaccines. I was right. Here is a PDF listing of some of their selected publications: [1]
There are some interesting related topic however, worth looking into for those that are interested. I include them here:
Can someone find a reference to back this up? I don't think this has happened at all yet, and will remove this paragraph unless someone points me to some literature... Thanks.
http://www.vrtnieuws.net/nieuwsnet_master/versie2/nieuws/details/060722Lassagriep/index.shtml It's in Dutch, but basically is about a recent case of Lassa Fever in Frankfurt.
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Hey there,
I was reading The Deamon in the freezer, then looked up some stuff on smallpox, came across lassa stuff on the way. I do believe that there is Lassa vaccine developed by USAMRIID.
I removed this:
Lassa fever is far more deadly than Ebola, though they share similar symptoms. Because Lassa is a very fast replicating and debilitating virus, the chances of a worldwide epidemic are small. Patients are far too weak to board a plane and spread it to other parts of the world.
It seems to be in contradiction of the listed mortality rates for Lassa and Ebola. Further, "Patients are far too weak to board a plane" doesn't make any sense. The virus (according to the article) has an incubation period of up to 21 days, a mortality rate of 1%, and is inaparent in 80% of cases. Finally, it's conjectural and missing a citation. icambron 04:17, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
I removed the line "Because this virus is so contagious, it has been classified as an NIAID Biodefense Category A Agent." from this section because the corresponding link ( http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/biodefenserelated/biodefense/documents/cata_overview.pdf) does not support the claim and in fact only contains one passing reference to Lassa regarding differentiating it from other viruses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.91.92.143 ( talk) 16:54, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
The article says that it is an arenavirus, like Ebola. The Ebola article says that Ebola is a filovirus. Shouldn't this be removed? Senor Cuete ( talk) 18:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Endemic (epidemiology) means that there is ongoing / sustained transmission or spread. Thus I propose we use "ongoing spread" in the lead instead of endemic to make our text more understandable to a general audience. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 12:54, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
My dictionary defines "endemic" as:
adjective
1 (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area: areas where malaria is endemic | complacency is endemic in industry today.
Isn't this exactly what the article is trying to say? Isn't "endemic" the correct vocabulary word for "endemic"?
Senor Cuete (
talk) 13:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Search Wikipedia for articles containing the word "endemic". If you don't like this word in Wikipedia , you have a big battle ahead of you. There are 51,882 hits. Senor Cuete ( talk) 13:41, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
There's no mandate on Wikipedia a to dumb the articles down for those who are educationally or English language-challenged, such as "English-language learners" or "children". In fact the purpose of a dictionary is the opposite: to educate people, bringing their level of education up. Who gave you the mandate to write Wikipedia down to some low level of education? What are you thinking? There's already a second such version: simple:wikipedia. If you are interested in creating low-quality watered-down content why don't you edit that? And let me say again, other editors didn't think that the word "endemic" was arcane. they used it 51,882 times. Shame on you. Senor Cuete ( talk) 23:27, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
I have reverted these edits due to some potential copyright problems. [4]
Specifically "In health-care settings, staff should always apply standard infection prevention and control precautions when caring for patients, regardless of their presumed diagnosis. These include basic hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, use of personal protective equipment (to block splashes or other contact with infected materials)" from http://www.sterlinghealthmcs.com/index.php/blog0/item/894-lassa-fever
Doc James (
talk ·
contribs ·
email) 20:30, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
If there are good sources, we should add that treatment with blood plasma from some recovered from lassa fever has been more effective than ribavirin. 85.226.183.45 ( talk) 19:24, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline
Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically
review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Lassa fever.
|
This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I have checked into what the National Lab in Winnipeg has published after an individual placed NML in the place of USAMRIID for the Vaccine research. I had originally included two reference to USAMRIID's work which had never been removed.
The second reference is a non-fiction book about smallpox, but it does give background about Peter Jahrling, a co-authour of the above article (reference).
I checked to be sure that the NML had not published anything on Lassa Vaccines. I was right. Here is a PDF listing of some of their selected publications: [1]
There are some interesting related topic however, worth looking into for those that are interested. I include them here:
Can someone find a reference to back this up? I don't think this has happened at all yet, and will remove this paragraph unless someone points me to some literature... Thanks.
http://www.vrtnieuws.net/nieuwsnet_master/versie2/nieuws/details/060722Lassagriep/index.shtml It's in Dutch, but basically is about a recent case of Lassa Fever in Frankfurt.
==
Hey there,
I was reading The Deamon in the freezer, then looked up some stuff on smallpox, came across lassa stuff on the way. I do believe that there is Lassa vaccine developed by USAMRIID.
I removed this:
Lassa fever is far more deadly than Ebola, though they share similar symptoms. Because Lassa is a very fast replicating and debilitating virus, the chances of a worldwide epidemic are small. Patients are far too weak to board a plane and spread it to other parts of the world.
It seems to be in contradiction of the listed mortality rates for Lassa and Ebola. Further, "Patients are far too weak to board a plane" doesn't make any sense. The virus (according to the article) has an incubation period of up to 21 days, a mortality rate of 1%, and is inaparent in 80% of cases. Finally, it's conjectural and missing a citation. icambron 04:17, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
I removed the line "Because this virus is so contagious, it has been classified as an NIAID Biodefense Category A Agent." from this section because the corresponding link ( http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/biodefenserelated/biodefense/documents/cata_overview.pdf) does not support the claim and in fact only contains one passing reference to Lassa regarding differentiating it from other viruses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.91.92.143 ( talk) 16:54, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
The article says that it is an arenavirus, like Ebola. The Ebola article says that Ebola is a filovirus. Shouldn't this be removed? Senor Cuete ( talk) 18:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Endemic (epidemiology) means that there is ongoing / sustained transmission or spread. Thus I propose we use "ongoing spread" in the lead instead of endemic to make our text more understandable to a general audience. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 12:54, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
My dictionary defines "endemic" as:
adjective
1 (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area: areas where malaria is endemic | complacency is endemic in industry today.
Isn't this exactly what the article is trying to say? Isn't "endemic" the correct vocabulary word for "endemic"?
Senor Cuete (
talk) 13:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Search Wikipedia for articles containing the word "endemic". If you don't like this word in Wikipedia , you have a big battle ahead of you. There are 51,882 hits. Senor Cuete ( talk) 13:41, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
There's no mandate on Wikipedia a to dumb the articles down for those who are educationally or English language-challenged, such as "English-language learners" or "children". In fact the purpose of a dictionary is the opposite: to educate people, bringing their level of education up. Who gave you the mandate to write Wikipedia down to some low level of education? What are you thinking? There's already a second such version: simple:wikipedia. If you are interested in creating low-quality watered-down content why don't you edit that? And let me say again, other editors didn't think that the word "endemic" was arcane. they used it 51,882 times. Shame on you. Senor Cuete ( talk) 23:27, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
I have reverted these edits due to some potential copyright problems. [4]
Specifically "In health-care settings, staff should always apply standard infection prevention and control precautions when caring for patients, regardless of their presumed diagnosis. These include basic hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, use of personal protective equipment (to block splashes or other contact with infected materials)" from http://www.sterlinghealthmcs.com/index.php/blog0/item/894-lassa-fever
Doc James (
talk ·
contribs ·
email) 20:30, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
If there are good sources, we should add that treatment with blood plasma from some recovered from lassa fever has been more effective than ribavirin. 85.226.183.45 ( talk) 19:24, 20 April 2024 (UTC)