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I wonder if they simply looked at the antibiotic use. For example when that was introduced specifically, and more so when we started "over-prescribing" it. That

• hwillis 7y ago
  Body temperatures are currently lower, so the opposite of what you're suggesting with low grade fevers from overprescription of antibiotics. However, fevers are caused by a subset of the interleukin family, which as a whole causes inflammation. Inflammation was the author's suggestion. Also, low grade fevers aren't a thing. Fever is caused by the immune system. You can only have a continuous infection with diseases that avoid or supress the immune system. There are a small number of brain-affecting infectious diseases like meningitis that can raise body temperature on their own. Chronically recurring stuff will also give you intermittent fevers, but there's no low-grade. You have it or you don't.