Mild fever helps clear infections faster, new study suggests (IMAGE)

University of Alberta

Mild fever helps clear infections faster, new study suggests

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Using a custom swim chamber to study how fish responded behaviourally to fever, researchers Daniel Barreda, Amro Soliman, Farah Haddad and their team found that mild fever helped the fish clear their bodies of infection rapidly, controlled inflammation and repaired tissue damage.

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