Influenza: Case Study #1

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C) Take acetaminophen for pain, but not for low grade fever.

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The fever is an effective host defense because it slows viral replication. Obviously high fevers or fevers in children prone to febrile convulsions should be suppressed. (See A for brief discussion of temperature dependence of influenza virus replication.)

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