{"id":7383,"date":"2016-12-26T12:29:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T18:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2016-12-26T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T18:29:13","slug":"running-a-fever-may-be-communally-beneficial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/26\/running-a-fever-may-be-communally-beneficial\/","title":{"rendered":"Running A Fever May Be Communally Beneficial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gino Segr\u00e8 is a physicist fascinated with the concept of temperature, to the point where he&#8217;s written a history of it, entitled <em><strong>A Matter of Degrees<\/strong><\/em>. It&#8217;s interesting, and here&#8217;s one of the better parts encountered so far. All typos are mine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But there is some evidence that fever enhances the functioning of the immune system; white blood cells, the system&#8217;s agents, move more rapidly as temperature approaches 104 degrees, but that&#8217;s only one of the possible reasons for the evolution of the fever response. P. A. Mackowiak has suggest that fever sometimes plays a protective role: a mild infection heals rapidly with perhaps a slight enhancement of the immune system, but a raging high fever that leads to a rapid death of the afflicted individual helps limit the spread to the individual&#8217;s kin of a violent contagious infection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmmmmmmm! Biological evolution applies to populations; individuals are merely the constituents of the populations, not the epitome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gino Segr\u00e8 is a physicist fascinated with the concept of temperature, to the point where he&#8217;s written a history of it, entitled A Matter of Degrees. It&#8217;s interesting, and here&#8217;s one of the better parts encountered so far. All typos are mine. But there is some evidence that fever enhances \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/26\/running-a-fever-may-be-communally-beneficial\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7384,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}