Table 3.
Haahaande Causes Mentioned in Semi-Structured Interviews (n=22)
| Young but dry grass | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 59% | |||||||||
| Rainy season | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 32% | |||||||||||||||
| Don’t know (or only Allah knows) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 27% | ||||||||||||||||
| Horse flies | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 23% | |||||||||||||||||
| Drink water after eating grass | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 18% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dirty water | 1 | 1 | 5% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Blood from infected cow | 1 | 1 | 5% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born with it | 1 | 1 | 5% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 38 |
Rows represent the different causes mentioned by an informant during the semi-structured interviews. The columns represent the different informants. The last column represents the percentages of informants that mentioned a particular cause.