Talk:Tunga penetrans

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"Organizations Helping Deal With Jiggers" seems a very clunky title to me. How about something like "Organizations Combatting Jiggers" or something like that (although I admit my alternative is not great; hopefully someone can come up with something better)? Transitive Sam (talk) 06:11, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like Kjkolb renamed this section "External links". That works for me! Transitive Sam (talk) 06:50, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

text: I went ahead and deleted it. Transitive Sam (talk) 06:50, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Organizations Helping Deal With Jiggers

message: "Organizations Helping Deal With Jiggers" seems a very clunky title to me. How about something like "Organizations Combatting Jiggers" or something like that (although I admit my alternative is not great; hopefully someone can come up with something better)? Transitive Sam (talk) 06:11, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like Kjkolb renamed this section "External links". That works for me! Transitive Sam (talk) 06:50, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: From my perusal of their website, it looks to me like Kingdom Driven Ministries is, FAR and above anything else, an evangelical missionary organization. Their involvement with anything medical seems to be limited to transporting people to hospitals and visiting them while they are inpatients. Additionally, this seems to be the case regardless of the medical malady and is not specific to jiggers at all. Their Medical Missions page is mostly composed of general information about jiggers; I fear they are using the current newsworthiness of jigger infestation in Africa to generate hits/interest in their generic patient support activities. I therefore suggest Kingdom Driven Ministries be removed from this list. Transitive Sam (talk) 06:11, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and deleted it. Transitive Sam (talk) 06:50, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Kingdom Driven Ministries

message: Surely this page can be combined with tungiasis? --Gak 12:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The following statement has been removed from the main article pending adequate referencing. --Gak 07:47, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction from West Indies to Africa

message: The article states that the flea is 1mm in size, but then "increases in size by 2000 to 3000"... I rather doubt that a flea can reach the size of 2 to 3 meters!!!
Anyway, "increases in size by 2000 to 3000" is not correct English. IronChris  |  (talk) 05:00, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Size

message: Please forgive my ignorance, but the ability to jump 20 cm (8 inches) does not sound so trivial to me.  But if the flea attacks mainly the toes of its human victims, as one article says, this suggests that its vertical leap is much less than 20 cm, although its horizontal leap (long jump) may indeed be 20 cm.  Could somebody knowledgeable clarify this point?Grisunge (talk) 02:49, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Jumping ability

message: Infection is a pathological condition caused by germs (bacteria, viruses). Infestation is the term to be used when the problem is caused by a parasite.
Mirrordor 07:02, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infection 

message: What is the treatment or first aid procedure? Do you remove them? Should there be a section on this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.108.129.238 (talk) 02:38, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment 

message: I read that the flea is widespread in African countries like Kenya as well as South America in tropical areas -- an area map of the distribution would be nice. 
I'm just wondering if they could be largely eliminated with nematodes (specific for fleas) or specialized bacteria (toxins) like Bacillus thuringiensis ?  
I found some info relating nematodes just for fleas but it was very limited
what i found regarding the chigoe was usage of fume distributed - chemical toxins, outside the use of Diatomaceous earth
--Ebricca (talk) 18:51, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  pest control - global distribution 

message: "Chloe flea" redirects here.  Is there any reliable source for this?  Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 15:58, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chloe flea