Talk:Rotavirus

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I removed

Rotaviruses are wheel-like structures.

because I think of a wheel as a round flat thing with spokes, whereas the virus are spherical, with three layers. I don't see any resemblance to a wheel. AxelBoldt 15:57, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

When you see fotographs taken by a electron microscope, rotavirus appears as an old carriot wheel, that's why they are called rotavirus (rota=wheel) http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/gastro/rotavirus.htm

_________________________________________________ i am doing a research about rotavirus in syria,,,, and and all that i could find in the net is the death toll,,,,,,so can anyone gives me more specific inf .........

[edit] citation fixed

This article was listed as requiring a citation. I believe the citation was listed already in the sources section and I have merely updated the link at the end of the first paragraph. What else needs to happen to get this off this list of articles lacking proper citation? Does that happen automatically?Keesiewonder 02:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] DLPs?

What are DLPs? There are many references to them, but no article on Wiki defines what that stands for.

[edit] Vaccine and the AAPS

The section of vaccines provides a very critical (and slightly out of place) comment from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Suspiciously, the AAPS hypertext linked to the organization's website instead of the Wiki article (I'm about to fix this). I was curious about the AAPS (I'm a med student and I've never heard of them, yet they have such an important sounding name), so I looked up their article and discovered that Time Magazine calls them basically a right-wing, anti-vaccine fringe group. No citation was given for this quotation, and I don't have the ability to search Time archives at home. Next time I get a chance, I'm going to hunt down a citation for this quote on the AAPS entry, and if it is in fact correct, I will delete all mention of the AAPS from this article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Iwhowley (talk • contribs) 19:03, 4 February 2007 (UTC).


Apparently there's been kind of a row about the AAPS on the wiki article; something about Conservapedia accusing Wikipedia of liberal bias. At any rate, it becomes clear that the AAPS is a conservative political organization of minimal impact comprised at least in part of physicians, not an influential medical or scientific association. Their defense of Rush Limbaugh isn't included in Limbaugh's page, and I can see no reason why their criticism of the rotavirus vaccine should be included in the rotavirus page. As such, I deleted the story of their criticism of the rotavirus vaccine.Iwhowley 22:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

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