BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
THE NERVOUS AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS
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To lower the temperature of the body to kill the bacteria
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The increase the temperature of the body to kill the bacteria
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To allow the bacteria to take over
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To make you feel miserable
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. Fever also activates your body’s immune system.
Detailed explanation-2: -High fever is commonly present in many bacterial causes (e.g. Shigella, Salmonella, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli). Fever is often absent or low-grade in other diseases (e.g. enteropathogenic E. coli, cholera).
Detailed explanation-3: -Your body reacts and heats up When you have an infection, you make lots of these cells. They work faster to try and fight off the infection. The increase in these white blood cells affects your hypothalamus. This makes your body heat up, causing a fever.
Detailed explanation-4: -A higher body temperature accelerates the internal workings of cells. This means disease-fighting cells respond faster, and immune responses increase. Germs, on the other hand, don’t reproduce as well at higher temperatures. A very high fever can slow down or kill off the microbes that cause some infectious diseases.