I saw this news story and thought we should start a thread wikipage (if there isn’t one already) for resources for languages other than English.
Pandemic resources are now available in several languages. The province has translated an emergency preparedness kit in five languages: Chinese, Punjabi, Vietnamese, Spanish and French.
The kit includes a list of ways to prepare for a pandemic and two posters.
Other language groups can access translated health information through the British Columbia BC Nurseline, a 24-hour health information phone line available seven days a week.
More information can be found at http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/pandemic/translations.html or the BC Nurseline at 1–866–215–4700.
See also the excellent [[http://www.ndu.edu/ctnsp/Bird_flu.htm | Bird Flu and You]] handouts and posters available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, German, French, Japanese, Portuguese. These are from the Center for Technology and National Security Policy.
thank you - this should find a way into the international awareness week initiative ;)
Updated Languages other than English
Great
So many languages each of us doesn’t know :)
the “languages other than english” resources page has been added to the PFAW page at the bottom.
In order to truely make the FluWiki a touchstone of how influenza affects our world it should be include all. America is not the center of the universe.
This page may serve as a placeholder until we can find the right location for each file under the FluWiki foreign language section. For now it is convenient to have things on one page because it reduces the need to surf and search the wiki for information people need. It is kind of like a maze in here and important things should be placed where they can be easily found.
DemFromCT, fredness, thanks to both!
Knowingly or not, Fluwikie has been an international endeavour since the beginning - at least if you count encouragement ;)
These websites have good information in English Spanish French Italian Chinese and some language I do not recognize. Help wanted by native speakers to add important information to the Language page. It seems useful to collate (aggregate) resources.
http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/subjects/en/health/diseases-cards/special_avian.html
Forgot about my other favorite. “Infection Control for Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers” in French and Portuguese. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/vhfmanual.htm
added New Zealand links. Character help wanted.
great, thanks!
what do you mean character help? ah, pogge?
Sorry for the incomplete comment this morning. Sleep deprivation is a bad thing.
Does anyone know how to get foreign language characters to print? For example some of these brochures (Chinese, Hindi, etc) have characters that do not appear when I copy and paste. Maybe there are ascii tables we should look for. In hindsight, I probably should have listed the english translation of each file in the event it is decided to reformat the links.
I am not certain of the purpose of the page. It seemed like a useful thing to do when I started. Should we make links from the appropriate country pages to it? Maybe it would be better to ask the WHO and FAO if they could use any of the info to make their resources more complete. At least the page provides a glimpse of the available advice. Getting good information from healthcare providers to citizens is vital. Making it well publicized could also help save time by reducing the need for every town and hospital to write their own guidelines.
Administrations can’t help everyone. Citizens need to be self sufficient. Advice on how to do so will help greatly in any language.
It would be nice if we could get people who are voraciously chasing the news to aggregate guidance resources also. I plan to make a foreign language resource FluWiki page based on the news searching tips posited by Theresa42 and others on the Flu Clinic. Actually I only know some Spanish. I did plan to do a Spanish version of my cd so this might be a good placeholder for those links. I have friends in Mexico City and know that city would be hit hard in a pandemic.
I am not certain of the purpose of the page. It seemed like a useful thing to do when I started.
LOL - I get that feeling often.
The rest of your post I agree, dead serious about it. Maybe each country needs to have a link to the multilingual resources - that would be the simplest thing to do. Just so they know.
Just like Woody Allen apparently said once: “ready, shoot, aim”. Ballistic wisdom, I guess.