Talk:Rabies

US human to human case?
The article claims that the '78 corneal transplant case is "currently known to be the only human to human case of rabies in the United States." But i don't think this is true; in '04, rabies caused several US deaths after an organ transplant. Unless I'm mistaken about the meaning of human to human. I've removed the claim for now, but wondering if there's something I missed.

See: https://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/07/01/rabies.organ.transplant/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/us/fourth-rabies-death-reported-from-a-single-organ-donor.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazylittlefrog (talk • contribs) 22:54, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Tragedy in Germany: six transplants have rabies
Terrible tragedy looms in Germany: more recent news say all six transplants have rabies now. Added to the article. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4271453.stm

Mentioned in FoxTrot
This article was mentioned in a FoxTrot comic strip (the image) about Wikipedia today (May 7 2005), though it obviously didn't get the same attention that Warthog did as a result. Just thought I'd mention it. --Phoenix-forgotten 17:52, 2005 May 7 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 February 2024
Please add this article tag until the indicated video, discussed in the Talk section with this same hour's timestamp, is hidden from view. (If the legal matter raised for Commons to adjudicate in that Talk section is decided toward the end that the video is compliant, it can of course be returned. But as long as the video remains in view, and the legal matter raised has not been addressed, this template message should call attention to the issue.)

24.14.18.35 (talk) 23:04, 25 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I believe this edit is the "legal matter" being raised here. There are three different concerns raised in that edit. The first two could be brought up on Wikimedia Commons (perhaps at the Commons help desk for lack of a more specific place to raise the concern about consent), while the third relates to Wikipedia sourcing guidelines so I believe this talk page would be the most appropriate place for that.
 * I will comment on the first concern raised; I don't have much to say about the others: Creative Commons licenses allow providing attribution in "any reasonable manner"; this phrase is present in every version of the licenses. A great deal (probably the majority) of images and media used on Wikipedia are available under Creative Commons licenses, so I suspect this would have received much more attention if Wikipedia's attribution was not done in a "reasonable manner" as required by the licenses. I will also note that the version 4.0 licenses specifically say: "For example, it may be reasonable to satisfy the [attribution] conditions by providing a URI or hyperlink to a resource that includes the required information."
 * Anon 126  (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 04:52, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I'll add that the concerns raised with regard to the video being a primary source appear not to be a cause for concern. The actual policy relating to the use of primary sources is available at WP:PRIMARY. Nowhere does it say anything resembling "we are to view them as possibly correct, but possibly not" – it simply warns against making any interpretation of the source. No interpretation is being made in this case: the video is titled by the source as "Patient 1 with Hydrophobia". Media files are routinely used without secondary sources reporting that they do indeed represent what they are stated to.
 * It appears entirely plausible (and even likely) that the consent received from the patient would include release under the free license attached to the work. The article shouldn't have (but of course could have) been released under such a license without consent to do so. There's no way to know for certain without contacting the author of the article, obviously. I would personally not be concerned about using this video, but will leave this edit request open for further input. Tollens (talk) 12:59, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've now marked the request answered. If there are further concerns please feel free to re-open. Tollens (talk) 01:15, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 April 2024
my biology class is entering a wikipediathon for our 'final essay' grade this Thursday, we have been researching this topic for the entirely of the semester with a professor that double checks all our work to make sure it is wiki worthy, to be able to add the heavily researched topics i have and be graded properly in our class i need to have access to the rabies wiki page. my current topic is about rare cases of rabies, and unique cases of malpractice that has led to outbreaks. i am also doing a part of rabies epidemiology in south asian countries such as Cambodia, Thailand, and India. Megamilleron (talk) 04:12, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate.  (talk | contribs) 04:23, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The form you used is for making requests of edits to the article. If you don't currently have anything to add/change about the article then please don't use this form. Once you have edits you wish to make you can resubmit this form with the changes, a source, and reasoning for them. Traumnovelle (talk) 04:23, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Grammar and Spelling is Bad
The whole section, "Semi-Recent Unique Cases in Human Rabies" reads like a junior high school paper and is full of grammar and spelling errors Kptkrunch (talk) 21:20, 30 April 2024 (UTC)


 * You mean like this sentence: "This is through to be an extremely rare case in American medicine as human rabies has been eradicated for many years in the US, however it is thought that the treatment this man received wasn't through enough for doctors to treat him properly, without a blood sample they were unaware of how prevalent it was in his blood stream and gave him an insufficient amount of medication needed to halt the progression of the disease." I removed the section. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106;&#x1D110;&#x1d107; 22:46, 30 April 2024 (UTC)