Health News: Flu virus replicates FASTER if you take fever reducer

If you've got a cold or the flu and have a fever, stay the fuck home please. Research suggests that taking fever reducers such as aspirin, ibuprofen, and what not actually INCREASE the replication of the virus. While this is beneficial for the person with the flu, it can actually make the virus spread faster to others if your body temperature is lowered.


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"When you've got the flu, it can't hurt to take an aspirin or an ibuprofen to control the fever and make you feel better, right? Wrong, some scientists say. Lowering your body temperature may make the virus replicate faster and increase the risk that you transmit it to others. A new study claims that there are at least 700 extra influenza deaths in the United States every year because people suppress their fever."

"As a result, if you have the flu and you're taking medication "it may actually be more important that you stay at home because you could be a greater risk to others," says David Earn, a mathematician at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and one of the authors of the paper. Some scientists call that claim premature, however."

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[link to news.sciencemag.org]


Here's an interesting scientific paper published by the Royal Society that suggests that an EXTRA 700 people per year die in the United States because of fever reducing medication.

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Population-level effects of suppressing fever
[link to rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org]

So good people, STAY HOME IF YOU'RE SICK!!!!! You just might save someone else from dieing.

Peace