This is the season of at least two kinds of fever going around.

The first is an elevated body temperature. The kind that accompanies an illness. After all, this is the flu season. And with the flu comes fever.

But a fever is a symptom of many diseases. All of us have had it at one time or another. Frequently, fevers are caused by bacterial infections, sometimes causing a fever to be extremely high. Several times when one of our children has been sick, my wife would say "He's on fire!"

Unless it's a family member we're nursing, we try to keep our distance from people with fevers, because the last thing we want to do is catch the fever.

There are risks to catching a fever:

• schedule and lifestyle disruptions;
• prolonged sickness and misery;
• chills and discomfort;
• hospitalization mayb…