I have read that southern Europeans often have a much harsher response to illness (higher fever / skin going bright red / that kind of thing), and that this is

I have read that southern Europeans often have a much harsher response to illness (higher fever / skin going bright red / that kind of thing), and that this is speculated to be a leftover from the Black Plague. I can't find a reference to it now, though, and if there was a term for the exaggerated response I don't remember it. It's possible that my memory confused a harsher fever response to normal illnesses with familial mediterranean fever: https://www.genome.gov/news/news-release/genomic-variation-causing-common-autoinflammatory-disease-may-increase-resilience-to-bubonic-plague https://www.genome.gov/news/news-release/genomic-variation-c... https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-black-death-shaped-human-evolution https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-bla...