James: Wow. Like wow. Do you have screen shots of that Google Hep C thing? That's appalling. Is there any indication of what the source was? My mate runs the local Hep C council and that particular canard is something they fight very hard to debunk.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:36 PM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > While Wikipedia's medical content is far from perfect, Google knowledge > graphs however have issues as well. > > For example they say that Hepatitis C is MAINLY spread by sexual contact. > > This 2010 review in Hepatology states "Regarding heterosexual transmission, > the weight of evidence is that there is no increased risk of sexual > transmission of HCV among heterosexual couples in regular relationships" > > WHO says it is a less common method. The main methods of transmission are > injection drug use and unscreened blood transmission. > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
