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Paraphrasing my doctor: infections have evolved to the point the fever isn’t effectively contributing to fighting the infection, but we never evolved to stop making the fever. Since it doesn’t do us any good, we might as well be as comfortable as possible while our immune system does it’s part.
Is there anything out there supporting this claim? I watched the video of the (probably) biologist above, explaining exactly the contrary