Talk:Sweating sickness

message: The article states no rash was visible, but the article in the BBC link provided says there was a rash associated with the disease.--Anchoress 00:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The

message: The article suggests that a bout with the sweating sickness seemed to offer no immunity and that a person could suffer with it several times (Characteristics). Later, it suggests that the fact that French mercenaries appeared to be immune to it meant it may have originated with them or in France (Cause). Another area notes that the sickness never appeared in France (1528).
Can we get these to all agree?
07:22, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Immunity or no immunity?

message: ...In the final stages, there was either general exhaustion and collapse, or an irresistible urge to sleep, which was thought[by whom?] to be fatal if the patient was permitted to give way to it...
the by whom is by Caius, whose description of the disease is being quoted,refer to
pp186 The Encyclopaedia Britannica : a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information (c1910-1922)
http://www.archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.251.203 (talk) 11:27, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, fixed. Graham87 14:27, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characteristics 

message: I just added "citation needed" to the first two paragraphs under the "Causes" heading and removed two statements re: "this suggests."  The author's conjectures are unencyclopedic.  I plan on deleting these two paragraphs if adequate citations are not added.
Lazr75 (talk) 03:49, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Causes section 

message: The article was assessed C-class for lack of sufficient in-line citations.Boneyard90 (talk) 07:09, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP:Death Assessment Commentary 

message: I removed the following: "Chronic fatigue syndrome has been suggested by Chaudhuria and Behan, based on a 1934 article of epidemic myalgia outbreaks that share clinical similarities with Bornholm disease." This has vbeeb tagged as a dead link for a while, and franklty, it's difficult to see how anyone could seriously suggest that this fast-acting fatal disease has any resemblance to CFS. Paul B (talk) 17:44, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: CFS

message: It seems kind of strange to have a mysterious historical disease represented by a modern diagnostic/billing code. Does the ICD explicitly mention sweating sickness under it's "sweating fever" category? Is it WP:OR to make the link between the historical disease and the modern category?Plantdrew (talk) 01:48, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking the same thing...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.183.192.219 (talk) 19:23, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Added redirect from sweating fever. WikiHannibal (talk) 18:20, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  ICD code 

message: Thought this might be useful as a citation. Bondegezou (talk) 18:44, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Why hasn't this citation been included in the article? Mcljlm (talk) 23:27, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: New citation

message: One of the theories concerning what was sweating sickness, perhaps a coronavirus with similarities to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, although it involves more with sweating than pulmonary or respiratory stress. There are 4 human coronaviruses, 3 of them jumped species from bats or other mammals to humans in the last 1,000 years and 3 which was found in the 21st century (including MERS-CoV). The tendency for this coronavirus to be most found in Calais, Picardy and Artois in Northern France, although these can become pandemic when it first infects humans without previous immunity (COVID-19 works like this), unless the rate of contagious or infectious spread is lower for this one. The Nord-Pas-de-Calais region was like the last part of France to reported a case and hospitalizations in the COVID-19 pandemic when it reached France. Not sure the locals had previous immunity in their ancestries, but natural history (the 1889-90 Flu theorized to be the human coronavirus OC43 first entered humans) showed us viruses always jumped from animals to humans. 2605:E000:100D:C571:4C1D:EB7D:B365:D7B4 (talk) 03:49, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Human Coronavirus NL63 first appeared in the late 1400s when sweating sickness began 

message: The current symptoms section has no mention of breathlessness even though it is commonly associated with this disease. The following will be added to said section to provide more information. Proper citations will be added when this section is finalized.
"Thomas Forestier provided a written account of his own experiences with the sweating sickness in 1485. Forestier put great emphasis on the sudden breathlessness that is commonly associated with the final hours of those who had contracted this disease. Forestier claimed in an account written for other physicians that "loathsome vapors" had congregated around the heart and lungs. His observations point towards a pulmonary component of this disease that was previously unknown." 19rtrudkin (talk) 16:29, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breathlessness as a Symptom 

message: I'll be adding information about the final outbreak including burial patterns, death rates, and timeline. Ebs5kp (talk) 17:24, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Final Outbreak Addition 

message: I will be adding information in the symptoms section about how long the disease normally lasted. 19rtrudkin (talk) 17:41, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Additions To Symptoms and Transmission 

message: I will be expanding on the information included in the fifteenth and sixteenth century outbreaks. This will include treatments, historical records, and demographic data concerning these outbreaks.Ebs5kp (talk) 22:42, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Additions 

message: > a mysterious and contagious disease
Is contagious really meant? Or should it be infectious?
Paul Magnussen (talk) 05:23, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contagious or infectious?