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Data Driven Disease Surveillance / Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments · Journal article
Nigerian Journal of Biotechnology and Life Sciences · September 4, 2026
A consensus or society position rather than new primary data.
This is a narrative review examining the relationship between fever phobia, antimicrobial resistance, and One Health principles. It does not present empirical evidence but instead recommends development of harmonized clinical practice guidelines, integration of fever management into healthcare curricula, and promotion of fever literacy among parents to reduce non-evidence-based fever management practices.
Narrative review. Children with fever; parents and caregivers; healthcare providers globally across all races and countries..
Fever phobia persists globally despite availability of national and international clinical practice guidelines on childhood fever management. Presumptive use of antimicrobial drugs to manage fever is identified as a non-evidence-based behaviour that drives antimicrobial resistance, described as a leading global cause of mortality. Lack of harmonization and standardization of clinical practice guidelines for fever management may partly explain poor understanding of fever's beneficial roles.
Presumptive use of antimicrobial drugs to manage fever is identified as a non-evidence-based behaviour that drives antimicrobial resistance, described as a leading global cause of mortality. Lack of harmonization and standardization of clinical practice guidelines for fever management may partly explain poor understanding of fever's beneficial roles.
This review suggests that clinicians should advocate for standardized, culturally-sensitive fever management guidelines and support fever literacy programmes for parents and patients to counter fever anxiety-driven antimicrobial overuse. Healthcare educators should integrate One Health principles and fever management into multidisciplinary curricula.
A narrative review synthesizing fever phobia, antimicrobial resistance, and One Health concepts to recommend clinical practice standardization and educational interventions, without presenting primary trial data.
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This review suggests that clinicians should advocate for standardized, culturally-sensitive fever management guidelines and support fever literacy programmes for parents and patients to counter fever anxiety-driven antimicrobial overuse. Healthcare educators should integrate One Health principles and fever management into multidisciplinary curricula.
Graded across the dimensions that decide whether you should act, each from what the source actually supports. There is no single score, and where a dimension was not assessed it says so.
What is missing. This record has no reported figures. That is a gap in the analysis, not a judgement about the study.
Fever is a biological phenomenon experienced by both humans and animals with environmental (like infectious agents), iatrogenic factors (like vaccines, drugs) as culprits. However, in spite of the availability of national and international clinical practice guidelines on childhood fever management, fever phobia or fever anxiety persists globally till date. This enduring phenomenon leads to non-evidence based behaviours that are practiced by parents/caregivers, healthcare providers, all races and countries globally. Presumptive use of antimicrobial drug products to manage fever is a type of non-evidence based behaviour that drives antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is a leading global cause of mortality with data-driven, well-coordinated One Health programs capable of stemming its tide. This review clarifies the nexus between fever phobia, its vicious cycle and One Health concept. First, this review was to draw attention to the perpetuity of fever phobia by illustrating (and briefly explaining) four nexuses with the expectation that it may contribute to the global re-awakening efforts towards addressing this important topic of global public health importance. Second, it draws strength by attempting to illustrate the nexus that exists between infectious diseases and childhood fever and One Health concept. Third, since the beneficial roles of fever are poorly understood and lack of harmonization/standardization of clinical practice guidelines for fever management could be partly responsible; we hereby recommend the development of a universally accepted, culturally-sensitive, harmonized Clinical Practice Guideline on childhood fever management that clearly spells out what constitute “good” and “bad” fevers. We further recommend that childhood fever, pain, infectious (including zoonotic) disease management and application of One Health framework should be incorporated into the academic curricula of healthcare students and be taught to a multidisciplinary class with the possibility of conducting interdisciplinary research on the subject matters. Additionally, promoting fever literacy among parents as such parents will neither engage in inappropriate practice/behaviour nor transmit same to their children/wards; was also recommended.
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