Part three: Folk beliefs about cholera among Bengali Muslims and Mogh Buddhists in Chittagong, Bangladesh

Abstract

Bengali Muslims and Mogh Buddhists in rural Chittagong, Bangladesh believe that cholera is brought by supernatural beings, and have developed traditional methods of warding off the disease. These methods resemble a brief quarantine, which, as in the West, is ineffective in controlling cholera. The explanation for the tenacity of the rituals may lie in the sporadic epidemiologic pattern of the clinical disease.

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