Hello Thomas!
This article is very interesting and I´d LOVE to believe its true, because I hate interfearing with the body´s natural response, as in a high fever.... but my own experience makes me skeptical. Of course, I know EVERYONE is different and responds in a different way - so my personal experience is just that!
Some years ago I developed a pneumonia with a temp. around 40 - 42 degrees Centigrade. This "raged" on for 3 weeks. At the beginning I decided not to do anything about it, in the hopes that it would just disappear on its own - since I´m really very healthy. However after the first 10 days and with no signs of it returning to normal, had to go to the doc and even they could´nt at first figure out what it was because listening to my lungs, blood work and x-rays etc did´nt confirm a typical diagnosis for pneumonia. After about 3 weeks of so of this high fever, the body finally responded to some heavy duty antibiotics. The whole affair left me totally weak and the liver seemed to have taken quite a "beating" with blood analysis sky high. A month or two later the same symptoms (high fever etc) returned. This time around, I went to the doc and asked to be prescribed the same antibiotics and was back to "good" health within a week. Since I´d been off work for a whole month the first time around, could´nt "afford" to go thru the whole sickness once again. THANK GOD no further relapses and for good health!