More than 90% of parents believe that a high fever can cause brain damage in children (it can't) and nearly two-thirds would give anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin to a child with a slightly elevated temperature that is below 100 degrees Fahrenheit (not recommended), according to a study in Clinical Pediatrics.

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He began to create works of art using locally collected wild thorny vines which to him represented the damage which the fever had inflicted on his brain.

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Victims of the rare virus suffer a high fever, headaches, diarrhoea, brain inflammation, nausea and internal bleeding.

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The stage was already set in the brain, mitochondrial disorders, and host of other disorders that, wow, came about after that fever incident.

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You know, years ago before we had all these vaccines, that fever, that temperature rise over a course of hours can insult a child's brain.

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