Talk:Trachoma

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I have now included a citation regarding the work of Dr Vincent Tabone Maltesedog 13:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I've updated the article to more accurately reflect Tabone's role. -AED 22:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Sources needed for these numbers, they don't seem right

A quick scan of information available online shows a much smaller population to be affected by trachoma. The International Trachoma Initiative lists the number to be at 84 million with the active disease, and over 8 million blind. Unite for Sight puts the number in the same area, with 18%-24% of blindness caused by trachoma, with 7-9 million. Cataracts are listed as the leading cause of blindness. The WHO lists the number to cause 3.6% of visual impairment globally, with cataracts once again listed as the leading cause.

So while it's difficult to actually pin down the exact numbers here, it seems safe to say that 400 million afflicted seems far too large, and that I can find no information suggesting that trachoma is the leading cause of blindness globally.

The only reason I didn't go ahead an make an edit is that the ITI article was unsourced, and medical issues are far from my expertise. I just happened to notice a discrepancy between this page and the blindness one.

Contextclouds 06:07, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

It isn't right, Contextclouds. From my knowledge the WHO estimate is much more likely to be accurate. I'm a retinal neuroscientist, though, not an opthamologist, so if one comes around and cares to settle the discussion (or replace the number), they would probably know better than me. Until then, I'm removing that number and the statement which claims it is the #1 cause of blindness.

C4Diesel 16:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Per http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/, trachoma is definitely not the overall leading cause of blindness. Per http://www.who.int/features/2006/trachoma/en/index.html, "Community development and intensified action by WHO’s Global Alliance for the Elimination of Blinding Trachoma by 2020, has reduced the number of people with blinding trachoma. The estimated number of people affected by trachoma has fallen from 360 million people in 1985 to approximately 80 million people today." -AED 06:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

There are large efforts to try and eridicate the disease. The latest numbers state that "40.6 million people are estimated to be suffering from active trachoma, and 8.2 million are estimated to have trichiasis." Source: Mariotti SP, Pascolini D, Rose-Nussbaumer J. Trachoma: Global magnitude of a preventable cause of blindness. Br J Ophthalmol. 2009; 93: 563-568. --130.238.158.168 (talk) 13:55, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

etymology

i think it just means 'roughness' or 'rough growth' -- not 'rough eye'

From the OED:

trachoma:

[mod.L., a. Gr. [my ignorant transliteration: traxoma] roughness (Dioscorides), f. [my ignorant transliteration: traxos] rough.]

oma:

terminal element repr. Gr. -xla, in which x repr. x (or o) in the parent word (usu. a vb.) and -la is a Gr. suffix forming neut. ns., exemplified in Eng. words adopted from the Gr. such as carcinoma, coloboma, derma, diploma, eczema, glaucoma, phyma, plasma, sarcoma, trachoma, and in words on Gr. analogy such as lipoma. In Bot. -oma has usu. been anglicized to -ome. In Med. the examples of sarcoma (17th c. in English) and carcinoma (18th c.) have been taken as types on which to base new names of neoplasms and other localized swellings, -oma (†-ome) being used as a suffix denoting ‘tumour, growth’ (cf. also Gr. Ãcjxla swelling): e.g. fibroma (†fibrome), cementoma, oligodendroglioma, tuberculoma (†tuberculome). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.53.49.104 (talk • contribs) 23:48, May 1, 2007 (UTC)

Lancet

Review doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60836-3 JFW | T@lk 21:40, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Another one: doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62182-0 JFW | T@lk 21:15, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Photo caption seems incorrect

I do not believe that the photo caption is correct, or that the photo is necessarily cogent to this article. The photo depicts sutures on an eyelid, not "eyelashes" on a "turned in eyelid". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.60.73.126 (talk) 14:17, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

ambiguouswordin

decreasing the number of people infected by treatment with antibiotics.[2]<AB+CAUSinfctn??>infectednumber- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.235.179.170 (talk) 04:33, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

i/THEIRpopultns(discharg

ocular discharge is just accepted as normal. However, further symptoms may include:

   Eye discharge+difOKULA><EYEdisch??  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.235.179.170 (talk) 05:03, 18 January 2016 (UTC) 

Suggest addition to "History"

Believed to be present in Australian Aborigines in Pleistocene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2405692 Lisapaloma (talk) 14:55, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Sounds good. You might be able to get the full article here: sci-hub.cc JuanTamad (talk) 06:24, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

You might. Linking to a site that has copyright violation as a raison d'être isn't a good idea on Wikipedia, though. ~Amatulić (talk) 06:13, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Erroneous titles for Paul Emerson

COI notice: I am employed in The Carter Center's communications office. A colleague from another organization brought the following to our attention. I have not attempted a Wiki edit before, so please forgive any missteps.

In "Epidemiology," Dr. Paul Emerson's listed titles are incorrect and outdated:

“We can make this disease history, and this document lays out a plan to do so,” said Dr. Paul Emerson, chair of the ICTC and director of The Carter Center’s Trachoma Control Program. “There is an urgent need for action to avoid additional suffering and unnecessary blindness for hundreds of thousands of people.”

Dr. Emerson is program director of the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), not chair of the ICTC; further, he no longer is director of the Carter Center's trachoma program. (The current director is Kelly Callahan, M.P.H.) In addition, the title of the Carter Center program should include the word "Control," with each word capitalized.

http://trachoma.org/staff http://www.taskforce.org/our-team/our-staff/paul-emerson https://www.cartercenter.org/health/trachoma/program_staff.html

The corrected attribution should read, "... said Dr. Paul Emerson, program director of the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) and former director of the Carter Center's Trachoma Control Program."

We appreciate your attention to these details. 206.57.79.91 (talk) 19:30, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

But at the time he said that phrase his titles were correct? Ruslik_Zero 19:41, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

I checked the links provided. The recommended revision is correct. JuanTamad (talk) 21:44, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

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