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Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2013 Sep 17;18(11):1406–1415. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12191

Table 4.

Perceived common causes of fever in adults identified by heads of households in Moshi, 2011^a

Cause of Fever	# of Respondents	%
	(N=810)
Malaria	766	94.6
Weather	564	69.6
Typhoid fever	185	22.8
Other infectious diseases	167	20.6
HIV/AIDS	137	17.0
Intestinal parasites	133	16.4
Alcohol	115	14.2
Amoebiasis	102	12.6
Tuberculosis	33	4.1
Infectious diseases from animal contact	5	0.6
Witchcraft	4	0.5
Other	219	27.0

In response to the question, ‘What are the three most common causes of fever in adults?’