Explain why you may not want to reduce a fever

Explain why you may not want to reduce a fever. In a physiological sense, what good is it? A co-worker recently got shingles, a neurological disease caused by the chicken pox virus. The co-worker was surprised to receive a prescription for an antiviral medicine because he thought there was nothing one could do about viral infection. If the medication is similar to natural interferons, what are two things that you can tell your co-worker about what the medicine might do?