Talk:Dengue fever

Wiki Education assignment: TCU SOM Wikipedia Elective Fall 2025 Block 9A

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 November 2025 and 5 December 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Frogdoc323 (article contribs).

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I propose adding some information efficacy data regarding the vaccines and statement on the halting of production of one of the vaccines. Frogdoc323 (talk) 21:31, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing out that Dengvaxia will soon cease manufacture. However your edit was poor quality so I have reversed it. Bob (talk) 22:33, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

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Illustration of a subcutaneous injection (no it isn't)

Hate to be pedantic but the image used here is an intradermal injection -- see its own description, also it's used on the Intradermal injection page. I knew something was wrong from the image though, subcutaneous injections aren't complicated and usually aren't given in the arm. Should probably be an image of an actual SC shot here. This image illustrates what a PITA an intradermal injection is vs. other types, even if the scale is off between the target areas.

Comparison of angle of subcutaneous injection of a needle with other injection types.

Note: The reason I didn't just edit the page like I usually would is that the SC page doesn't even have an image of an injection being performed and I try to avoid the rabbit-hole of mediawiki because I usually can't find things there even if they exist.

A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 07:17, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

That would be the image at Dengue fever#Vaccine, namely File:Intradermal injection.jpg which was uploaded in June 2017 by Mvolz. A way find to find similar images is to click the image in the article, then click "view on commons" at the top. At the bottom of the Commons page are categories and clicking them should reveal similar images. In this case, I did not see any useful alternatives. Ideas could be obtained at WT:WikiProject Medicine. Johnuniq (talk) 08:27, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Here on Wikipedia we love pedantry! It's intradermal, it's even the name of the file! I deleted it from the page. I don't find it strictly necessary to have one on this page, but it would be good to source one just in general. Mvolz (talk) 08:49, 9 July 2026 (UTC)