Table 2.

Informant consensus factor (F _IC) for different ailments.

Ailment	Number of species	Number of citations	F IC
Diarrhoea/dysentery	33	120	0.73
Skin infections	36	108	0.67
STIs	70	210	0.67
Malaria	15	77	0.82
TB/pneumonia	19	68	0.73
Oral infections	11	55	0.81
Cough	18	71	0.76
Fever/flu/colds/headache	10	45	0.80
Libido/erectile dysfunction	4	12	0.73
Meningitis	2	6	0.80
Weight loss	1	4	1.00
Cancer	1	4	1.00