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When people come down with a cold or the flu, they shiver and get very cold. what is the physiological reason behind this?
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Temperature reset: This is the mechanism for fever. The hypothalamus resets the body temperature in response to an infection; shivering is a mechanism to increase temperature in response to the reset of body temperature.
Answered 4/11/2017
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