Fascinating story about doctors from the 19th century having sporadic success in putting tumors and cancer in remission by inducing fever.
See AmeriSci: Healing Heat: Harnessing Infection to Fight Cancer
The thinking is that cancer cells are designed to keep the immune system from reacting too strongly. Having a fever ramps up the complete immune response which includes dealing with cancerous cells.
This reinforces my hypothesis that RSV related wheezing in toddler and infants is partly due to the accompanying fever; in that, the body responds to the fever by ramping up the immune response and inadvertently attacking and constricting the respiratory system.
