International bird flu word-list
Here’s my international bird flu/avian influenza word-list that I use when looking for bf news/information from non-English sources. Please, add others to the list. Thanks!
I use these to search Google — but more often I use them to search the news at alltheweb.com — I tend to get better results there:
http://www.alltheweb.com/?cat=news&cs=utf8&q=&rys=0&itag=crv&_sb_lang=pref
I also search for “H5N1” on alltheweb.com’s news search and select for results to be displayed in any language.
You can get reasonably ok machine-translations for many languages from babelfish:
http://babelfish.altavista.com
I use toggletext for Indonesian:
And, this online service for Arabic:
http://translate.sakhr.com/sakhr/elogin_ET.asp
The List:
influenza aviaria (Italian)
grippe aviaire (French) gripe aviar/aviaria (Spanish) gripe aviária (Portugese) gripa aviara (Romanian)
kuş gribi (Turkish) quş qripi (Azeri)
paukščių gripą (Lithuanian)
ptasia grypa (Polish - 2 variations) ptasiej grypy
ptičje gripa (Croatian) ptičje gripe (Slovenian) ptačí chřipky (Czech) vtáčia chrípka/vtáčej chrípky (Slovakian)
linnugripi (Estonian)
lintuinfluenssaa (Finnish)
madárinfluenza (Hungarian)
vogelgrippe (German) vogelgriep (Dutch)
fugleinfluenza (Danish/Norwegian) fågelinfluensa (Swedish)
انفلونزا الطيور (Arabic) بأنفلونزا الطيور[“by the bird flu”] (Arabic)
γρίπη των πτηνών (Greek)
птичий грипп (Russian)
пташиний грип (Ukranian - 3 variations) пташиним грипом пташиного грипу
flu burung (Indonesian)
ไข้หวัดนก (Thai)
Plus, a pretty basic but functional Thai-English machine translator:
International bird flu news searches - Indonesia
Bird flu in Indonesian is flu burung’. For (interesting) machine-translations, there’s http://www.toggletext.com [remember that toggletext likes to reverse genders for some reason — every time it says he/his you should read she/hers and vice versa].
Another Indo-English machine-translator can be found here:
http://www.kamus-online.com/index.php?lang=en
The Indonesian Department of Health’s website is here — it often has bf reports as well as info on other disease outbreaks: http://www.depkes.go.id/
Their English site is here: http://www.depkes.go.id/en/index_en.htm
Their bf site is here: http://www.depkes.go.id/index.php?op…icle&artid=214
When searching for bf news in Indonesian, I often start with a search at alltheweb.com’s news search (make sure to select for results in any language):
http://www.alltheweb.com/?cat=news&cs=utf8&q=&rys=0&itag=crv&_sb_lang=pref
I also check the following Indonesian news sources:
Media Indonesia Online: http://www.mediaindo.co.id
MetroTVNews.com: http://www.metrotvnews.com
Liputan6.com: http://www.liputan6.com
Pikiran Rakyat (newspaper from Bandung): http://www.pikiran-rakyat.com/cetak/
Harian Analisa online (news from Sumatra): http://analisadaily.com
Waspada online (news from Sumatra): http://www.waspada.co.id
There are many more Indonesian news sources listed here by region, although not all of the links work: http://www.indopubs.com/panel2.html
International bird flu news searches — Egypt
Bird flu in Arabic is ÇäÝáæäÒÇ ÇáØíæÑ. I don’t always pick up bf stories when I search for these words as written — there must be variations in how bf is written in Arabic, but I haven’t spent the time to figure those out. Here’s one variation:
ÈÃäÝáæäÒÇ ÇáØíæÑ [by the bird flu] (Arabic).
For (very interesting) machine-translations, there’s http://translate.sakhr.com/sakhr/elogin_ET.asp — it’s a free site, but it has its limits. For one thing, you can only translate approx. one to two sentences at a time — so it’s a bit of work to get a whole article done.
The Egyptian government’s bird flu website is here: http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/ahtml/aindex.htm
Their English site is here: http://birdflu.sis.gov.eg/html/index.htm
When searching for bf news in Arabic, I often start with a search at alltheweb.com’s news search (make sure to select for results in any language):
http://www.alltheweb.com/?cat=news&cs=utf8&q=&rys=0&itag=crv&_sb_lang=pref
Of course, then you’ll get results from news sources all over the Middle East, not just Egypt.
There are several Egyptian newspapers and news sites online, but the one that has consistently had the most bf news is Al Wafd: http://www.alwafd.org/front/index.php
The BBC describes Al Wafd as an ‘opposition’ paper and, as the voice of the Al-Wafd party which certainly does not support the current government, the paper does put something of a sensationalist spin on the bf news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/737642.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Wafd
There is no search function on the site, so I do a ‘Find (on this page)’ search [for you Internet Explorer users] for ÇäÝáæäÒÇ ÇáØíæÑ on the first, third and fourth pages as selected using the buttons in the right-hand column — these correspond to the front page, the local page and a page called Mohafazat.
Again, you might not pick up on all the bf stories using ÇäÝáæäÒÇ ÇáØíæÑ, so at the height of the bf outbreak I was checking all the headlines on those three pages. Nowadays, after an initial ‘Find’ search, I look for something that looks like a bf story — if there are chickens in a photo, for instance — or if there’s a picture of the Health Minister (!) — and here he is:
http://www.alwafd.org/front/detail.php?id=7222&cat=local
The Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) also had quite a few, detailed reports on human bf cases in Egypt — particularly on their Arabic pages: http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/default.aspx?Language=ar
There’s a search page here: http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/newsSearch.aspx?Language=ar
But, I also did a lot of ‘Find’ searches to dig up bf articles.
(Hint: if you mouse-over the buttons/links on the Arabic pages, you can often figure out what they are/where they lead to by what the URL is.)
Hmmmm. For some reason, the Arabic script didn’t work in that last post. You can see “bird flu” in Arabic in my first post though.
Theresa42, in Dutch it’s called “vogelgriep”, The ‘g’ is not hard, as in ‘get’, but sounds as if you’re clearing your throat, as during a cold! Perhaps the Scottish ‘loch’ comes close. Unfortunately, in the Dutch media one doesn’t see very much about ‘vogelgriep’; it’s still considered a bird disease, despite the fact that Indonesia was a Dutch colony for 400 years and many people of Indonesian descent live here.
Those who are concerned about the spread of the disease and the possibility of it becoming pandemic in humans must seek their information on sites like the fluwiki. I am so very grateful for all of you for contributing to this site, and for the brilliant efforts of the moderators to start this site, as well as maintaining it. Best wishes to you all.
Thanks, Ocean2!
Theresa42,
In Finnish it’s actually “lintuinfluenssa”, only one “a” at the end. For those who can see japanese writing it’s “鳥インフルエンザ” in japanese. You can use babelfish for mediocre translations.
Cool. Thanks, nimeton! (I thought you could never have too many a’s in Finnish….) ;-)
‹×—¬Š´ (qin2 liu2 gan3 in pinyin)in Mandarin Chinese
Path Forward,
Makes me glad I’m limited to German, Dutch and English.
Whoops — sorry, I can’t figure out the right way to paste in the Chinese characters. You can see them clearly here:
Many thanks Nimeton and Path Forward! :)
Thank you again. I will record this for the future.
Thailand - Regional Departments of Disease Prevention and Control / BF pages
There are 12 regional Departments of Disease Prevention and Control (DPCs) in Thailand, each of which covers a number of provinces (the number seems to vary).
Here’s a page with links to all 12 — some of the links (Nos. 1, 4 and 12) don’t seem to be working:
http://dpc3.ddc.moph.go.th/dpc.htm
Below are links to the 9 DPCs which are working. I tried to work out which provinces were covered by each department — but I haven’t managed to figure that out for all of them yet (an ongoing project!). I also tried to link directly to their bf info pages if I could find any.
Bird flu (avian influenza) in Thai is: ä¢éËÇÑ´¹¡
And, here’s a pretty basic but functional Thai-English machine translator:
No. 2 - Saraburi: http://dpc2.ddc.moph.go.th/
Central Thailand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraburi_province
No. 3 - Chonburi: http://dpc3.ddc.moph.go.th/
South/Central Thailand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chonburi_Province
No. 5 - Nakhon Ratchasima: http://dpc5.ddc.moph.go.th/home.html
Northeast Thailand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhon_Ratchasima_Province
Bird flu information: http://dpc5.ddc.moph.go.th/hot/data29.html
Spreadsheet: http://dpc5.ddc.moph.go.th/hot/data29.47(18july).pdf
No. 6 - Khon Kaen: http://dpc6.ddc.moph.go.th/
Northeast Thailand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khon_Kaen_province
Provinces covered by Khon Kaen Dept.: Nongbua Lamphu, Khon Kaen, Udan Thani, Loei, Nong Kai, Roi Et, Maha Sarakham
H5N1 news including suspected cases spreadsheets from Khon Kaen Dept.:
http://dpc6.ddc.moph.go.th/oldh5n1.php
No. 7 - Ubon Ratchathani: http://dpc7.ddc.moph.go.th/
Northeast/Eastern Thailand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubon_Ratchathani_province
No. 8 - Nakhon Sawan: http://dpc8.ddc.moph.go.th/
North/Central Thailand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhon_Sawan_Province
Provinces covered by Nakon Sawan Dept.: Nakhon Sawan, Uthani Thani, Kamphaeng Phet, Phichit
Daily bf reports: http://tinyurl.com/e5gmc
No. 9 - Phitsanulok: http://dpc9.ddc.moph.go.th/
Northern Thailand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phitsanulok_Province
Bird flu pages: http://dpc9.ddc.moph.go.th/news/servil.html
No. 10 - Chiang Mai: http://dpc10.ddc.moph.go.th/
Northern Thailand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai_Province
Provinces covered by Chiang Mai Dept.: Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Lampang, Phayao, Chiang Rai, Mae Hong Son, Phrae, Nan
Bird flu reports: http://dpc10.ddc.moph.go.th/birdflu49.htm
No. 11 - Nakhon Si Thammarat: http://dpc11.thawang.com/dpc11_new/
Southern Thailand: http://tinyurl.com/elu9r
Well, for some reason bf in Thai didn’t appear properly in my post above — you can, however, see it in the first post in this thread — the bf word-list.
The forum shorthand list of abbreviations and jargon is just waiting for your contributions.
In Finnish ‘lintuinfluenssaa’ means something like ‘a number of cases of bird flu’ ‘lintuinfluenssa’ means ‘bird flu’ so I guess both words are equally good to google; they both are used quite much in texts.
In Finnish also ‘lintukuolemat’ is a widely used word/euphenism to mark if there’s a suspicion of H5N1. It means ‘bird deaths’.
Ah! Thanks, Thinlina! :)
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