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❗️Just what you’ve been waiting for❗️Sunday @BoggildLab #Tweetorial on Fever in the Returning Traveler!! 🤒✈️🏝🏖💉🦟🌞Buckle up, friends 😊🙏🙏 @MedTweetorials @AcademicChatter #AcademicChatter #MedTweetorials #Fever #Travel #VectorBorneDisease #VaccinesWork 1/23
2/23 Fever = hypothalamic thermostat reset to a ⬆️ temp in response to infection. It’s an adaptive biological response to pathogen invasion that assists w/ immunological control of infections. Most texts refer to fever as temp >38 C. See JAMA paper also: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1302471 
3/23 Fever in returning travelers is common in our population due to high mobility & travel proclivities. We collectively log millions of miles of air and land transit annually to countries that have very different endemicity profiles for infectious diseases compared to 🇨🇦 or 🇺🇸
