Turning up the heat helps animals fight germs—a lesson for humans on fevers | News Channel 3-12

Turning up the heat helps animals fight germs—a lesson for humans on fevers | News Channel 3-12

Friends Stock // Shutterstock Turning up the heat helps animals fight germs—a lesson for humans on fevers Why do people get fevers when we get sick? It’s a common misconception that pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2 or the flu, cause fevers. But it’s not that simple, report Phil Starks and Harry Bernheim, both biology professors at Tufts University, in The Conversation. Pathogens cause fevers only indirectly. When your immune system detects harmful …