Like other forms of inflammation, a fever enhances the innate immune defenses by stimulating leukocytes to kill pathogens. The rise in body temperature also may inhibit the growth of many pathogens since human pathogens are mesophiles with optimum growth occurring around 35 °C (95 °F). Fever is a cardinal response to infection that has been conserved in warm and ... The fever response is a hallmark of infection and inflammatory disease and ... Specifically, passive elevation of the core body temperature of mice to ... with RANK mutations exhibit impaired fever responses during pneumonia.
<h2>You get a fever because your body is trying to kill the virus or bacteria that caused the infection. Most of those bacteria and viruses do well when your body is at your normal temperature. But if you have a fever, it is harder for them to survive.</h2><h2>HOPE IT HELPS</h2>
