Talk:African trypanosomiasis
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Mechanism?
editThe section on mechanism seems to indicate that the way the organism causes damage is the production of tryptophal or am I misinterpreting? Is the eventual cause of death, for example, due to the presence of this chemical or that this chemical simply how the disease cause sleep? I think this could be clarified.--Jrm2007 (talk) 07:21, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Lancet
editdoi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31510-6 JFW | T@lk 11:09, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
Main topic for "sleeping sickness
editUser:Wbm1058 IMO sleeping sickness should at least redirect here with the current sleeping sickness page be coming a disambig. Your thoughts? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:10, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
- At 17:24, 2 January 2009 Arcadian moved Sleeping sickness to African trypanosomiasis over redirect: dab
- So this is potentially controversial as another editor thought the term was ambiguous. I'm not an expert on this, and haven't analyzed usage of the term, so I don't really know whether this is the primary topic.
- Personally I'd start a requested move discussion, but if you want to boldly reverse Arcadian I won't object. wbm1058 (talk) 01:29, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
- Sounds good. I have adjusted. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:32, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
Epidemiology discrepancy
editThe epidemiology section seems to contradict itself. It starts out by strongly suggesting that the number of deaths due to HAT is declining significantly, way down from 34 000 in 1991 to 9000 in 2010. Then the second paragraph claims 48 000 deaths in 2008. If there really was a spike that large I would expect it to be explained, or real numbers harmonised with the text. --Craig (t|c) 11:14, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Fix the table in Epidemiology
editits too big to the point where it scrolls off the page, additionally it would probably be a good idea to merge countries that dont go into the triple digits into an "Other African countries" row as imo their too minor to be taking up so much space Tauin (talk) 17:43, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
- edit: heres a quick edit that i did to show what i mean (NOTE: i havent added the "Other African Countries" row yet) https://i.imgur.com/DPayxKv.png Tauin (talk) 17:57, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
