Talk:Zaire ebolavirus
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I merged the EHF article with this but I'm not sure it was the right thing. Is it not better to have seperate, linked articles, one on the disease the other on the virPENIS Certainly Ebola Sudan and Zaire should be redirects. I would prefer the information to be under EHF. Unless there are any objections I'll do the moves.
Moved!
redirects
I'm wondering why Ebola virus gets redirected to Ebola. It should be the other way around. And also, I think Ebola virus and Ebola hemorrhagic fever should be two separate articles as one is the virus and the other is the disease it causes. Any objections? If not I would like to move around the redirects. Andrewr47 01:57, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
You should include a link to this section, which describes the entry mechanism
NPC1#Ebola_virus --Biggerj1 (talk) 08:16, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
A couple of issues
- The term "EBOV VP30" is used in Virology/Structure without previous definition.
- The article "Klenk & Feldmann, 2004" is cited multiple times, but the the internal links don't exist.
Tim (talk) 21:51, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Random Text?
Someone wrote "On the chart, it's 50% not 55%" near the end of the article. I'm not sure if this is vandalism, or someone was trying to make a suggestion about the chart and put it in the wrong place, or what. Also it says "virPENIS" above. 71.196.247.245 (talk) 05:48, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
Garcinia
The assertion garcinia is "suspected of" able to stop replication of the virus relies almost entirely on a 15-year-old BBC article. A careful reading of that lede reveals no in vivo trials were conducted, and a careful web search reveals no other scientific supporting information has been generated since 1999, although anecdotal and wholly unsupported assertions proliferate on homeopathic websites.Nickrz (talk) 14:22, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- Yeah, that's why I flagged it as dubious (twice). Since nobody has come forward to defend that statement being included, it's probably time to remove it. Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 18:02, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
- WP:RSMED#Popular press gives good guidance here. I'll remove the statement. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 01:48, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
- As a rather unfortunate example of misleading info floating around the internet, rumours of this "treatment" are now spreading around West Africa, prompting suspicion that Western aid workers are withholding treatment and allowing people to make money out of fake cures. Curiously, there is another Nigerian study which also makes claims as to its potential value as a treatment for another condition - http://interesjournal.org/JMMS/Pdf/2011/January/Ogbadoyi%20et%20al.pdf Donners (talk) 07:41, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
Units
What is "19 kb" in the context of virus length? Can the "kb" be cross-ref'd to its relevant article? Tomgg (talk) 03:51, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- It means kilo-bases, number of DNA nucleotides. See Kilobase#Length_measurements. Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 04:52, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks---that was so efficient! Tomgg (talk) 05:28, 28 July 2014 (UTC)