Talk:Dirofilaria immitis/Archive 1

Humans
Although I am not familiar with health topics in general, I will remove the remark that humans may be subject to a heartworm infection, as this is not only unsourced, but other sources I skimmed indicate that this is rater unlikely. -- 790 ♫ 15:14, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Photo?
There was an Animal Planet video featuring a preserved canine heart with worms. A similar photo will be nice to have in Wikipedia.
 * I'll get a photo from work, but the heart will have to stay in the jar. Formaldehyde cleanup is a pain in the butt.  --Joelmills 19:39, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Holistic?
I nuked the reference to Diatomaceous Earth. It's awkward and rather POV, implying that veterinary drugs are somehow dangerous. Wikipedia's own Diatomaceous Earth article provides no reference to use on internal parasites. My own googling provides no documentation of any studies as to it's efficacy, or even much guidance as to how you're supposed to use it. It also clashes with the final paragraph under "Treatment". I'm not opposed to some mention of Diatomaceous Earth in the article, but it's got to be NPOV and references would be nice. If you can't tell my own views of "holistic" cures (Is holistic even the right word?) is negative so I'm not the one to figure out how to work the reference back in... ;) 71.87.46.114 (talk) 22:20, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

History
The "History" section needs to be rewritten to reflect a more international focus. As it currently reads, it gives only the North American viewpoint (I'm a U.S. citizen btw), whereas the disease is virtually world wide in its distribution. I will try to get around to doing the revision unless someone else does it sooner.


 * The section's better now, but it still needs improvement as regards the original distribution of the disease. Or rather, the Distribution section just following it does; I suppose that was split out of History. Question is, does "southern climes" mean that it occurred only in southern North America, or was it found in other warm climates, or what? --207.176.159.90 23:40, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I think it originated in North America and has subsequently ended up in other areas with mosquitos, but I don't have a source for that. --Joelmills 03:53, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

There's a formatting error for "History". I can't edit it through. Not registered. 69.114.6.144 (talk) 15:36, 5 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that was week-old vandalism. Fixed now. Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 23:20, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Copyright issues?
most of this entry looks identical to http://www.canismajor.com/dog/hartworm.html the canismajor.com site does not credit wikipedia and in fact claim copyright in the footer. I sthe entry a copy/paste from the above or vice versa?
 * After a little searching, it seems that the article on canismajor.com was copied and pasted here in July 2005. I used the Internet Archive and it looks like they had that article as far back as 1999.  So we stole it, and it's been modified over the last year and a half so it only resembles the original in parts.  I guess I know what I'm going to be doing for the next couple of hours.  Thanks for catching that.  Lazy people like that piss me off (the guy that pasted the article, I mean).  -Joelmills 16:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I think I got it all. -Joelmills 23:45, 26 February 2007 (UTC)