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Pyrogen
From MEpedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of ME and CFS science and history
When used in medical terms, a pyrogen is something, usually bacterial or viral, that triggers the immune response that causes the human body temperature to exceed normal. In short, a pyrogen induces fever.[1][2]
