Talk:Zika fever

message: This page needs to improved. Using the Ebola virus disease article as a guide is probably a good idea. There should be signs and symptoms at the top. Move the symptoms from the current Zika virus outbreak in South America (2015–present) page. juanTamad (talk) 02:18, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs work

message: Evidence for the existence of a vaccine requires more than a claim by someone that they made one. People make claims like this all the time and they have nothing to do with prevention.
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:34, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Vaccine

message: I've  toned down the confidence level.  The source, an as yet unpublished manuscript, uses "strong possibility", not "confirmed". --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email)  17:47, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sexual transmission 

message: The Aedes albopictus article is BADLY outdated, and it's important because this is the mosquito that spreads Zika. Are there any experts in the field who can give that article some urgently-needed updating? In particular, the map in that article is from 2007. CometEncke (talk) 17:32, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I think a number of species of mosquito within the genus Aedes can spread Zika.  FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 22:40, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Aedes albopictus]] 

message: The article says that symptoms cease within 7 days, but does that mean that the virus is at that point gone from the blood stream? Or does it remain latent in the blood stream indefinitely?
:Zika virus is cleared rapidly and has not been reported to establish latency. I added a reference to this in the diagnosis section. Pgcudahy (talk) 22:18, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification needed 

message: While the 'first human cases were reported in Nigeria in 1954', only now the news and information outlets report it as a story. Might not the reason/s behind this late reporting be addressed?
:Before the Brazil outbreak the link with microcephaly and GBS were not well established so Zika was not seen as a threat. You might want to check out the article Zika Virus Outside Africa by Edward B. Hayes (doi 10.3201/eid1509.090442) which was written before the Brazil outbreak but has a good narrative history of efforts to study the virus since the 1950s. Pgcudahy (talk) 22:21, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The First Human Cases 

message: A draft has been started on the outbreaks in the Pacific Ocean islands that preceded the outbreak in the Americas here: 2013-2014 Zika fever outbreaks in Oceania. Please do not remove this notice without explanation. juanTamad (talk) 03:35, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: 2013-2014 Zika fever outbreaks in Oceania

message: The current text on how the WHO is continuing to recommend breastfeeding under the Prevention heading isn't really relevant to prevention of Zika transmission, unlike the preceding line on condom use. The source does not specifically mention breastfeeding as helping to directly prevent Zika transmission or aiding in preventing Zika infection, only that the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh any potential risk at present. It might be better to move this under the Transmission heading. Alcherin (talk) 15:55, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breastfeeding 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I am setting up a mailing list for ongoing research around Zika virus, Zika fever and Zika virus outbreak (2015–present). So if any questions come up here that need expert input, please ping me or post there directly. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk)  11:27, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ongoing research 

message: Hi, . I disagree with your edit that added the list of currently affected countries back into the article. I originally took out the list for two reasons: 1) that level of detail is already in the article about the current outbreak, and seems out of scope for this article, which is supposed to be about the disease; and 2) the list was way out of date—countries and territories are being added frequently, and the list in this article hasn't been kept up. Several editors work at the outbreak article to keep the tables of countries and numbers of cases up to date. We could put a hatnote on the travel section here, perhaps, linking to the outbreak article.— Gorthian (talk) 02:43, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I get tons of questions about Zika and number 1 is where do I need to be worried about this and number 2 is how significant are the risks of microcephaly and GBS. This should be a core element of the article. I have been keeping it up to date so far, are there any errors you see needing correction? Pgcudahy (talk) 13:38, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country detail 

message: I'm not sure if the new History section belongs in this article. There are already several detailed articles documenting individual outbreaks of Zika and this appears to be mainly copy-pasted from Zika_virus_outbreak_(2015–present). I think the Epidemiology section with brief summaries and links to the more detailed pages is a better fit and this is just unnecessary duplication. Pgcudahy (talk) 14:57, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Section 

message: I'm sorry you removed the edit note with your last edit. I know it's sort of shouty, but I was reverting a spate of edits that were trying to say the link to microcephaly is still unproven (see , , , and ). I finally inserted that note so other editors wouldn't keep on adding words like "suspected" into the leads of the Zika articles. I made it all capitals so it wouldn't get lost in the text-soup of citations in the editing window. — Gorthian (talk) 03:58, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I will keep an eye on it, here. Not a big fan of all caps. Agree it is now confirmed. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:05, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit note 

message: The article said nothing about the prognosis.  I added a quotation from a likely-looking online source as a starting point.  Somebody who knows where to get reliably sourced information should improve that section.  It's more urgent than sections like History; how did it get overlooked?  Zaslav (talk) 03:11, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prognosis? 

message: Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
This article is neutral, nothing appears very biased at all.
Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
No everything is up to date
131.94.186.11 (talk) 01:14, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Section header

message: Concern for men's health mounts as Zika batters testicles of mice in new study. It seems Zika causes mice testicles to shrink. 
I don't know where this would go in the article. --Frmorrison (talk) 17:47, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for posting. Content about health needs to be supported with a ref per WP:MEDRS; we generally don't add content based on primary sources describing animal studies. Jytdog (talk) 17:53, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mice testicles Comment 

message: I've noticed that the ICD-10 (see here for where) refers to Zika as Zika virus disease. So if this is the case shouldn't this article be named Zika virus disease per the ICD-10, as I thought that's how we deal with the naming of Wikipedia articles? Brenton (contribs · email · talk · uploads) 17:42, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: No strong feelings. I guess we could. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:38, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shouldn't this article be renamed Zika virus disease due to the ICD10? 

message: How a tiny mosquito became one of the world’s ‘most efficient killers’, Washington Post, Brady Dennis, Feb. 19, 2016.
'  .  .  .  In the late 1940s and 1950s, for example, one campaign led to the eradication of Aedes aegypti in at least 18 Latin American countries and some Caribbean islands.
'But the effort eventually faltered, as surveillance declined and political will waned. Mosquitoes developed resistance to insecticides, and urbanization outpaced eradication efforts. Aedes aegypti roared back, and so did diseases such as dengue fever.
'“We’ve been fighting this mosquito for a century or more,” Kading said. “It’s a tough mosquito.”  .  .  .  '
::We currently seem to have a good but short section on mosquito control.  We could probably included more detail.  FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 23:12, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  one species of ''Aedes'' mosquito eradicated in at least 18 Latin American countries during the 1940s and '50s, and eradicated in some Caribbean islands 

message: More birth defects in U.S. areas with local Zika spread, CBS News, Jan. 25, 2018.
'  .  .  The report, published in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, shows southern Florida, a portion of south Texas, and Puerto Rico saw a 21 percent increase in potential Zika-associated birth defects in the last half of 2016,  .  .  '  [maybe Zika, maybe not]
'  .  .  The majority of women who had babies with birth defects associated with Zika did not have laboratory evidence of the infection, either because they were not tested, were not tested at the right time or were not exposed to Zika virus.  .  '  [and if you do a test for antibodies to Zika, that merely tells you whether or not the woman has been exposed to Zika at some time in the past.  And if it's before her pregnancy, the resulting immunity is advantageous]
::And the other thing which jumps out at me, Wow, this is really late.  Only now getting info for 2016? ! ?  In no way, shape, or form is this real time data which might potentially be very helpful with a newly emerging health crisis.  
::Next step, let's look up this CDC M&M report. FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 00:58, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report suggests 20% increase in Zika-affected birth defects in affected areas (2nd half of 2016)

message: doi:10.1136/practneurol-2017-001789 JFW | T@lk 09:19, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neurological complcations 

message: "researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues reported that 9 percent of 1,450 children examined had at least one neurodevelopmental abnormality possibly tied to Zika, including seizures, hearing problems, difficulties swallowing, and cerebral-palsy-like movement issues. They also found that 6 percent had a Zika-related birth defect and 1 percent had both defects and neurodevelopmental problems." JuanTamad (talk) 08:51, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: CDC report: neurodevelopmental abnormality possibly tied to Zika

message: The first presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY8vZ6wES9o might interest the editors who worked on the Zika articles.  Conclusions begin around the 21-minute mark. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:27, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Research on this article 

message: * 
Significant because of the scale of the Crisis in Venezuela and the likelihood of diseases crossing borders via emigration.  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  23:17, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lancet, Venezuela 

message: I think it would be useful if the impact on climate change for this disease / its vector is mentioned in this (and similar disease) articles. For now I have added a link under See also. We could also bring it in via the excerpt tool from climate change and infectious diseases#Zika fever. Unless people who're watching this article think it's an irrelevant aspect and not WP:DUE? Curious to hear your thoughts. (or is it more relevant at zika virus?) EMsmile (talk) 10:57, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mention how climate change can increase the spread?