Health Matters. Know your pain with Dr Ramona Govender. Fever.

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Before last year you were never aware of what your average body temperature was…
but boy how that has changed!
We now all know what our ‘numbers’ are pretty much daily, and we would certainly be very aware whether we have a fever these days, as it means much more at the moment than it ever did before.
Dr Ramona Govender is a rheumatology fellow at Groote Schuur Hospital, and she joins us again on Health Matters to talk more about the intricacies of fever.
6 Jul 2021 English South Africa Health & Fitness

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