Talk:Malaria

message: Kindly add to the Research chapter, probably best under the Other sub heading:
 The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute has made available a simulator program for studying malaria epidemiology and the impacts of interventions against malaria.Open Malaria GitHub
regards 2001:14BA:80D2:6F00:0:0:0:1EC (talk) 09:31, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed reference to standard reference. – (t@lk) 23:20, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  GitHub isn't reliable. – (t@lk) 00:07, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

text:  (ec) The cited ref here is a GitHub repository, and thus a primary source and not suitable for use a reference in this context. So I've undone this. Yilloslime (talk) 00:09, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
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message: This source "Non lethal pathogenic diseases: changing the paradigm from a
zero sum game to a symbiotic relationship, the case of malaria." does not appear to be pubmed indexed. Also person who added it appears to have a COI. And were does it say it is CC BY? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:12, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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message: Each year, approximately 210 million people are infected with malaria, and about 440,000 people die from the disease. Most of the people who die from the disease are young children in Africa. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IBRAHIM K. YUSUF (talk • contribs) 19:13, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 26 July 2019 

message: It was mentioned on the news this morning (September 9 2019) that a study in The Lancet had said malaria could be eliminated in a generation. Could this be mentioned in the article? Vorbee (talk) 06:38, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: In my opinion, yes. Just be sure to comply with WP:UNDUE and other relevant policies. Clarinetguy097 (talk) 01:58, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for link. From the first few pages, it seems that this commission came up with a plan to eradicate malaria by 2050, but they don't yet know if anyone is actually going to carry out the plan. Clarinetguy097 (talk) 22:58, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  With the situation in Venezuela, unlikely.  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  23:16, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Study in Lancet

message: It's unclear whether the sentence under Pathophysiology section that reads "Some P. vivax sporozoites do not immediately develop into exoerythrocytic-phase merozoites, but instead, produce hypnozoites that remain dormant for periods ranging from several months (7–10 months is typical) to several years. " is supported by the citations in its following sentences. Thus the claim that "...dormant for periods ranging from several months (7-10 months) to several years." seems to require a citation, and ideally more specificity around "several years" (how many? what study has found an upper range?). 
I request someone confirm the existing citations work for that claim and give it the same citation link, or that a "citation needed" flag get added to that sentence. 
Earthonaut (talk) 01:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I've given that sentence the same citation link - the source does support that statement. Re duration: "Sometimes the latency could be as long as one year, and there were well documented, but apparently unusual, cases reported of latencies greater than two years." Wantok (toktok) 07:16, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit to add "citation needed" 

message: The article reasonably lacks information regarding transmission of the disease. Though malaria is a mosquito-borne disease, it can obviously be transmitted via blood transfusion. The parasites responsible, albeit P. falciparum being the most common, may also be transmitted across the placenta. Furthermore, transmissions by organ transplantation have also been reported. Very few things have been told about these transmissions. A detailed discussion about these transmissions may be added together with the vector transmission by making a seperate section named as 'Disease transmission' or whatsoever.--A doxadius (talk) 00:16, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transmission of malaria 

message: Does anyone object if I remove the "further reading" list? I think it's an arbitrary listing of publications, including a very old one. Surely if they are important they should rather be used as in-line citations. EMsmile (talk) 11:26, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove "further reading" list? 

message: The section about climate change impacts is important but I am not sure if it should be under "Cause". It's not that climate change is the root cause, it's just that it means the mosquitos responsible for malaria are becoming more common in areas where they weren't before. So I am wondering if it should be moved to "Epidemiology" rather, and become a sub-section there. Thoughts? - Also, could anyone interested in the topic please check if we have the right level of detail here versus the details available in Climate change and infectious diseases#Malaria. Do we need more or less? That other article could also do with improvements in case anyone is interesting in this topic. EMsmile (talk) 11:29, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I have moved the climate change section to "epidemiology" now. EMsmile (talk) 01:42, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move the section about climate change? 

message: I perceive an inconsistency in the section of this article on History:  It says, 'The first effective treatment for malaria came from the bark of cinchona tree, which contains quinine. This tree grows on the slopes of the Andes, mainly in Peru. The indigenous peoples of Peru made a tincture of cinchona to control fever. Its effectiveness against malaria was found and the Jesuits introduced the treatment to Europe around 1640 ... .  The medicinal value of Artemisia annua has been used by Chinese herbalists in traditional Chinese medicines for 2,000 years. In 1596, Li Shizhen recommended tea made from qinghao specifically to treat malaria symptoms in his "Compendium of Materia Medica".'  
In particular, this passage suggests that Artemisia annua (which does NOT contain quinine) may have been used to control malaria in China before a tincture of cinchona was used by the indigenous peoples of Peru.  I don't know enough to fix this problem, but this analysis suggests an opportunity to improve this article.  Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 14:51, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  First effective treatment for malaria came from ...? 

message: Two questions regarding images:  
1.  The "Child with malaria in Ethiopia" image a little over half way through the article is the same as the still displayed with the "Video summary (script)" at the end of the lede.  Maybe the later image should be deleted and the "Video summary (script)" should be modified to be more specific?  
2.  Is there a reason :File:PFLDH.png was deleted?  Probably:  It looks a little too cartoonish and illustrates things not mentioned in the text.  However, I felt  need to ask to make sure it wasn't deleted by accident.  
Thanks for all you do to help educate the entirety of humanity, DavidMCEddy (talk) 16:45, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: User:DavidMCEddy, I agree with #1. The second photo was not only cartoonish, but a copyright violation improperly uploaded to Commons. It should be deleted from there soon.--Quisqualis (talk) 19:15, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  images? 

message: The history section currently reads as follows:
Although the parasite responsible for P. falciparum malaria has been in existence for 50,000–100,000 years, the population size of the parasite did not increase until about 10,000 years ago, concurrently with advances in agriculture.On the other hand, in the article Plasmodium falciparum, we haveP. falciparum is now generally accepted to have evolved from Laverania (a subgenus of Plasmodium found in apes) species present in gorilla in Western Africa. Genetic diversity indicates that the human protozoan emerged around 10,000 years ago.Which of these is correct? Arbitrarily0 (talk) 01:04, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History related to the origin of [[Plasmodium falciparum]] 

message: In the history section, immediately before the list of names of malaria, is this sentence: "In total, malaria may have killed 50-60 billion people throughout history, or about half of all humans that have ever lived."
Its only cited source is an article (not a paper) on nature.com, which itself doesn't cite a source for this claim.
Also, the source only says "Malaria may have killed half of all the people that ever lived." without giving an estimate for the number of deaths. Is there a better source for this claim? If there isn't, does it make sense to add [citation needed]? Irgendwhy (talk) 18:31, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your concern and have removed this sentence and ref now:  EMsmile (talk) 07:48, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death Toll of Malaria throughout History 

message: My suggestion is to move some of the content that is currently under the malaria vaccine section (which I have just bundled together in this section: Malaria#Research on malaria vaccines to the article malaria vaccine. We could also ensure the lead of malaria vaccine ensure is good and then transcribe it back to here with the excerpt tool. This way, when there is new info about the vaccine, we only have to update this info in one article, not two. Thoughts? Pinging User:Whywhenwhohow and User:Merxistan. EMsmile (talk) 07:44, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion to move out some of the content about the vaccine 

message: The content here about how climate change affects the spread of malaria seems to be a bit more cautious than the content here: Climate change and infectious diseases#Malaria. Which one is more up to date? If it's the one in the climate change article then perhaps it would be better to bring back that content by way of an excerpt. EMsmile (talk) 16:07, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  does climate change increase the risk of malaria? 

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