Talk:Cryptosporidiosis

Requests
Can someone in the know here add a little bit about how the body does clear the infection? The article explains it lasts for up to two weeks or so, but doesn't explain how the body gets rid of it. Not too much is needed I guess, but a little would help. Also, where is the information from? Proper citation of sources is very important for Wikipedia long term, otherwise critics can point out the info could have been made up out of thin air and thus is unreliable. Thanks - Taxman 22:02, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)

Cryptosporidium and Cryptosporidiosis
There was much duplication between these two articles. I have tried to separate these out and post the appropriate information into each. Please feel free to do further tidying but I don't think it appropriate to maintain duplicate information, not least because they said slightly different things. Velela 10:53, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

A source and a question about specificity
I found a possible source for the up to 5 weeks bit with the citation needed beside it; however, the source states "Shedding begins when the symptoms begin and can last for weeks after the symptoms (e.g., diarrhea) stop" (CDC @ http://www.cdc.gov/crypto/epi.html). Should it be modified to the more ambiguous CDC fact or should it be left with the more exact description with continued search for a source? WillWritesWiki (talk) 18:07, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Non-human Examples
The article mentions lizards as prone to the disease. I've heard that it also affects birds, particularly small ones - my mother's vet told her that her parakeets require bottled rather than New York City tap water for that reason. Probably this should be mentioned, as people might consult such an article vis-a-vis their own pet birds.

Also, as an aside, the Hasidic community in New York had some debate fairly recently over whether the water was Kosher if it had these organisms in it.70.18.4.114 (talk) 14:56, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Review
Lancet Infect Dis 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70772-8 JFW &#124; T@lk  12:53, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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Clarification request regarding use of peroxide for decontamination
I see no value in this request for clarification because the sentence as written adequately reflects the reliable source cited. The neutral point of view would be to reflect reliable sourcing. Cryptosporidium is hard to kill - hence its role in the worst outbreak of waterbourn gastrointestinal illness in USA history. &mdash; soupvector (talk) 01:40, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

cryptosporidiosis
Read with interest the details on this topic; noted that the outbreak in Torbay, Devon in 1995. I happened to be living there, in the village of Kingskerswell, at that time, having moved down from Bristol during December 1994. The problem in the local tapwater supply, soon became apparent. Requests to South West Water to test the supply were not acted upon. Campers at the Barton Hall Pontins holiday camp were being treated at Torbay Hospital, Torquay but were considered to be taking the problem into the hospital with them. My son-in-law in London was able to find a research source on the topic mainly in Kansas State University. I gave a copy to Phil Cook who lived in Torquay Road at the time. It was passed over to the medical staff at the hospital, and Dr Sarah Harrison, took the matter up. What transpired was the fact that at the treatment works at Littlehempston on the River Dart, the filters were ineffective, and the cysts were passing through. The treated water was then being pumped up to an open storage reservoir (Venford?) up on Dartmoor. The water was then pumped back down to a covered storage reservoir near Gallows Gate alongside the road to Paignton (A380) and from there, distributed to localities in the area. Newton Abbot was served from a different reservoir near Moretonhampstead, which was not connected to the River Dart. The most efficient filter described by the Kansas SU researcher was kieselguhr, but any supplies of that were being used by the military for cleansing bacteriological and radiological contamination due to the war in Iraq which was current at the same time. Eventually, SWW were forced to install micro-filters at the treatment plant. HMBrock (talk) 07:22, 29 April 2023 (UTC)