Talk:Visceral leishmaniasis

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[edit] Nature

It may be of interest to Wikipedians that the journal Nature (20 April 2005) published an editorial on the (widely ignored) importance of articles on this (type of) topic:

The all-embracing open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia doesn’t have a dedicated page on kala-azar, or visceral leishmaniasis. But who cares? After all, the disease only transforms vast numbers of people in developing countries into walking skeletons [...]. [...] it often goes untreated, causing some 200,000 deaths each year. In the research and development (R&D) chains that lead to drugs, more attention is devoted to silicone breast implants and pills for erectile dysfunction than to the roughly 8,000 orphan diseases. [...]

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A round table on neglected diseases [...] in Lyon, France, last week, left a depressing sense of how far we have all got to go [...].

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— Reference: "Wanted: social entrepreneurs"; Nature; 434 (7036) : pp.941–941
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— DIV (128.250.204.118 07:50, 1 July 2007 (UTC))

In 2005 Wikipedia had been in existence for—what—four years? Rome wasn't built in a day, nor is Wikipedia a complete model of human knowledge in, well, ever. This is rather like mocking the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary for not having any entries past C after four years. Nor did the situation last: Looking at the article history, Visceral leishmaniasis was created about six months after the editorial in question - by an anonymous editor no less. (See also: Eventualism). -- MarcoTolo 02:23, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

— Joe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.13.11 (talk) 01:48, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Can't help but notice that the sandfly vector is "3-6 micrometers long by 1.5-3 micrometers in diameter" yet the infectious protozoan is "only three to seven micrometers in diameter". How can this be? The protozoan is larger than the sandfly. Should the sandfly be in millimeters? If I knew, I would edit this, but I have no expertise on this - I only read this article because B. Gates was talking about this disease today.

[edit] More pictures

Come on, folks! Help to become this article better. Add some figure, specially in life-cycle. Retornaire (talk) 10:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)