Talk:Pediculosis

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[edit] Human Pediculosis

Pediculosis humanus capitis is exclusive to humans. However, pediculosis is a general term for "lice infestation", e.g., note the ~50,000- hits on Google for "pediculosis + cattle", and tons of other examples regarding other animals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.137.37.60 (talk) 1 September 2007

This article seems to be primarily about head lice infestation or Pediculosis humanus capitis. I think the previous poster brings up a good point. Should this article be moved to Pediculosis in humans? I definitely think it should contain more information regarding infestations of the other two species of lice that involve human hosts. We should probably look at how this can be better indexed with Treatment of human head lice. Ursasapien (talk) 11:35, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm opposed, at present, to moving this article. The term pediculosis (by itself) is commonly used to refer to the human disease(s). For example, see the The Merck Manual. And for that reason alone, I see no need to further qualify this article's present title. I welcome non-human pediculosis content (i.e., infestation by insects of the suborder Anoplura), and I think that content could be reasonably accomodated in this article. Noca2plus (talk) 17:52, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] African Americans and Lice

I've edited the bit about African Americans and lice. I'd rather have just deleted it, as it seemed like speculation, and without corroboration, it seems irrelevant. The second sentence of it was nonsense, so I deleted it. If someone wants to delete the sentence, there'll be no complain from me.Rat (talk) 23:57, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Why do they reference "African Americans"? Do we not have data on "African Africans" or other people groups? Ursasapien (talk) 11:38, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

It's true that pediculosis is less common in blacks. I've added a ref to support this. But so far as I know, the mechanism is not known, so I deleted that portion. If I come across a ref that mentions the current speculation, I'll add that back in. Noca2plus (talk) 18:17, 19 February 2008 (UTC)