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French to English: Les maladies hydriques affectent plusieurs millions de personnes
Source text - French Les maladies hydriques affectent plusieurs millions de personnes
Près d'un quart de la population nigérienne est atteinte de bilharziose, une maladie parasitaire qui s'attrape dans les eaux souillées des rivières, a révélé une nouvelle étude du ministère nigérien de la Santé. Quelque trois millions de Nigériens, sur les 13,4 millions que compte le pays, sont atteints de schistosomiase, une infection parasitaire dont les premiers symptômes se manifestent par des éruptions cutanées et de la fièvre. L'infection chronique peut entraîner des maladies urinaires, vésicales, hépatiques, pulmonaires, intestinales, mais peut également affecter le système nerveux. Selon l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS), les maladies parasitaires sont endémiques dans les régions où les systèmes de distribution d'eau et d'assainissement sont quasi inexistants et où les conditions d'habitation sont mauvaises. Le Niger, vaste pays enclavé situé au sud du Sahara, a le plus petit nombre de puits par habitant au monde. Quatre Nigériens sur cinq vivent à la campagne où au moins 40% d'entre eux dépendent des puits pour se procurer de l'eau et font leurs besoins dans la brousse. En collaboration avec l'organisation non gouvernementale basée en Grande Bretagne Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), les autorités nigériennes ont dit répondre au problème en construisant à Niamey un nouveau laboratoire dédié à ces maladies et en distribuant des médicaments pour guérir les patients. D'après l'OMS, ces maladies parasitaires menacent près d'un milliard de personnes dans le monde, un sixième de la population mondiale.
Translation - English Hydric diseases are affecting several millions of people
A new report from the Nigerien Ministry of Health has revealed that close to a quarter of the population of Niger suffers from bilharzias, a parasitic disease that can be contracted in infested river waters. About three millions of Nigeriens, out of the 13,4 millions accounted for in the country, have schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease whose first symptoms are characterised by skin eruptions and fever. A chronic infection can lead to urinary, vesical, hepatic, pulmonary, or intestinal diseases but can also affect the nervous system. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), parasitic diseases are endemic in regions where water distribution and decontamination systems are close to non-existent and where living conditions are poor. Niger, a large country enclosed south of Sahara, has the smallest number of wells per inhabitant in the world. Four out of five Nigeriens are living in rural areas where at least 40 % of them depend on wells to get water and are using the outdoors to go to the toilet. In partnership with Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), the nongovernmental organisation based in Great Britain, authorities from Niger have said to be responding to the problem by building a new laboratory dedicated to these diseases in Niamey, and by distributing medicines to heal patients. According to WHO, close to a billion people in the world, or one sixth of the world’s population, are under the threat of these parasitic diseases.
Completed: 'Community Translation' unit with UWS University/ High Distinction 92%.
'Specialised Translation' unit with UWS University/ High Distinction 90%.
NAATI qualified English=>French
Studying to gain NAATI accreditation French=>English
Lived first 19 years of my life in French speaking countries and the next 19 in English speaking ones.
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Keywords: My main experience has been in translating legal texts over the past few years on a part time basis.(Contracts, lawyers C.Vs, conference proceedings etc.) I have also worked on mining and humanitarian projects.
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