A Mexican immigrant mother tells the nurse she is concerned that people in the community will give her daughter mal de ojo. To which of the following folk illnesses is the nurse referring?
a. Evil eye
b. Fallen fontanel
c. Soul loss
d. Indigestion
ANS: A
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