Talk:List of infectious diseases

message: Reason why botulism was removed:
Botulism is almost always not an infection. It is caused by a toxin that poisons the body - no live C. botulinum bacteria required. There are relatively rare cases of young infants becoming infected due to their fragile and naive immune systems. This is commonly called "Floppy baby syndrome" or "infant botulism". However, I am not sure what current pediatricians call the ailment, so I have not listed it yet. See here for more info. --maveric149
Reason why food poisoning was removed:
Most cases of food poisoning are in fact true poisonings (hence the name) that are caused by bacteria produced toxins. The only major exception is Salmonellosis, which is a true infection and is already listed (pray you never get this one, it is nasty).  --maveric149
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I notice that Typhus redirects to Typhoid fever.  Are they in fact the same disease?  If so, please move Typhus to the bacterial section, since Typhoid fever is bacterial in origin.  Also, the thought occurs to me that perhaps we should have a section on diseases/maladies caused by microbial agents, with no infection necessary (perhaps call the secion "toxiflora" or somesuch?).  That way, we could list botulism, food poisoning, mycotoxins, etc...  Just an idea...  Pgdudda
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Typhoid fever and Typhus are completely different diseases. Typhoid fever is caused by various strains of Salmonella: Typhus is caused by various Rickettsiae and can be further divided into epidemic (louse-borne) typhus, endemic typhus (flea-borne or murine) and scrub typhus (chigger-borne).  I'm about to attempt unredirection... Someone else 12:14 Sep 5, 2002 (PDT)
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MRSA is methicillin-resistant 'Staphylococcus aureus', a bacterium, not a disease.  I've changed it to  MRSA infection, since it can cause so many different infections.  Someone else 14:16 Sep 5, 2002 (PDT)
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What about Monkeypox? Where should that go? I'm not sure where to put it. --DanielCD 21:17, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Reason

message: So is that all the human infectious diseases? The list seems quite small. Thanks. Randomblue (talk) 18:06, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  All of them? 

message: I am planning on doing quite a bit of work on this. First, I will get rid of the page's organization by causative agent because it may just as well have been organized by portal of entry or mode of transmission. Next, I will use a table format. Then, we can build it up from there. Let me know if you have any qualms or suggestions. Thank you.
LittleT889 (talk) 00:49, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remodeling 

message: Hi,
I've added a category for vaccines, in which I have categorized them into 3 categories: "No" vaccine, vaccine "Under research" and licensed vaccine exists ("Yes"). However I still hesitate on whether COVID-19 vaccines should be classified as approved or under research. 
I am open for discussion.
!Nsadqa (talk) 08:55, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Vaccines

message: Is there any reliable source that says zeaspora infects humans? The article on zeaspora is a text and says it infects rotifers. Looking online all I see is a suspect book called ‘Reversing Zeaspora’ that claims to consult the ‘teachings of many natural healers’ for vegan diet-based medicine, and a throwaway, oddly written and possibly machine generated paragraph that claims it infects humans, dogs and ravens (?). Nothing mainstream. 
If it only infects rotifers, it doesn’t belong here. Harsimaja (talk) 20:18, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zeaspora