The fever outcomes comprised cure at home (67%) or at hospital (23%) and death at home (5%) or in hospital (5%).
These vaccines might be a confounder of fever and/or outcome.
In the past two decades, numerous studies have underlined the deleterious effects of fever on outcome, especially in neurological diseases, leading to active treatment of fever with medications and/or various physical means [ 4].
See related research by Egi et al., http://ccforum.com/content/16/1/R33 The report by Egi and colleagues offers new insight into the association between fever and outcome in ICU patients with or without sepsis [ 1].
Some studies have shown links between low-grade hyperthermia (>37.5°C) and adverse outcomes [ 52]; however, evidence that treating fever improves outcomes is still lacking.
Objectives: To estimate the seroprevalence of antibodies to Coxiella burnetii among pregnant women and to assess the effect of Q fever on pregnancy outcome.
It is also important to recognize that the effect of fever control on outcomes may be dependent on whether the fever is due to an infectious etiology or not [ 5, 6].
How fever could influence outcome in septic patients is a key issue that remains debated because of the limited value of studies that included a heterogeneous population of patients with different levels of severity of sepsis.
From there, and with the home crowd's roars reaching fever pitch, the outcome was never in doubt.
It has been difficult to design studies looking at the impact of fever control on outcome, in part because traditional methods of fever control are ineffective.
