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Nobody loves both sweating and having chills. So if you come down with a fever, you might reach for the Tylenol right away. But right in time for cold and flu season, new research suggests there could be a reason for all that heat. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports.
JONATHAN LAMBERT, BYLINE: The notion that fever can be a good thing is a very old idea. In the fifth century, the Greek physician Hippocrates thought that fever could cook an illness out of a patient. Sam Wilson is a microbiologist at the University of Cambridge.
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