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When suffering from an infection, your body has some built-in remedies. One of these is fever. Since most organisms that negatively affect the human body are designed to best live at the normal body temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, raising your body temperature can help to kill off the infection. A rectal temperature of over 100.4 degrees is always a fever. Rectal temperature readings are normally 1 degree higher than oral readings.
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