Community concepts of malaria-related illness with and without convulsions in southern Ghana

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Local terms and their approximate English equivalents

Vignette with convulsions
Obosomase	English translation	Galo-Sota	English translation
Sroakyereno	Attacked by the sky	Xeivitsoe	Taken/attacked by a bird
Adiatorniso	Obsessed or possessed	Adukpodzidor dzedzi	Attacked by garbage dump illness
Atridii barima akyereno	Attacked by male malaria	Hehedor dzedzi	Attacked by stretching illness
		Dordzagla/dorsese dzedzi	Attacked by a strong illness
		Dzifotorwotsoe	Taken by the people of the sky
		Miatorwotsoe	Taken by our friends
Vignette without convulsions ¹
Atridii	Hot body, yellowish urine, yellowish eyes, Vomiting, cold, and shivering, bodily pains, weakness, refusal of food, easily startled, paleness, weight loss, etc	Asra	Hot body, yellowish urine, yellowish eyes, Vomiting, cold and shivering, bodily pains, weakness, refusal of food, easily startled, paleness, weight loss, etc
Ebun		Fever
Feve		Nudza
Malaria		Malaria

¹Local terms and names for MRI without convulsions have no single equivalent in English, and were used interchangeably to represent similar conditions. "Malaria" and "fever" have also been incorporated in local usage as terms and names.

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