27 Dec, 2024
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What You Need To Know About Sloth Fever Virus – Health Digest

chaossart/Shutterstock Another virus has reached U.S. soil. This time it’s the Oropouche virus — also known as sloth fever because the virus was first found in 1955 in the blood of a sloth. According to Scientific American, Oropouche had infected people and animals primarily in the Amazon, but […]

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Is There Any Truth To The ‘Feed A Cold, Starve A Fever’ Saying? Here’s What We Know – Health Digest

When you get a fever, both calorie use and metabolism increase in your body, so it’s important to fuel it with the nutrients it needs, according to the clinical instructor of internal medicine at NYU Langone Health, Dr. Albert Ahn (via Health). “When you have a fever, it is essentially increasing your body’s temperature to fight […]