There is no way to tell for sure by looking at a feverish child whether the child indeed has bacteremia.

Don't bundle a feverish child in blankets.

There wasn't a house that hadn't feverish children and sick parents.

So the feverish and crying children continue to show up every morning at clinics like this one in the Kiname neighborhood of Bujumbura.

She'd spent most of the night tending a feverish child, humming lullabies mixed with healing spells.

She knew she couldn't concentrate on how to help the feverish child with her thoughts clouded.

Until then, all feverish children or elderly should be quarantined immediately, even if they weren't in hot zones like Florida and Georgia.

Up all night, comforting his feverish child, he tells her:

She was shivering like a feverish child, uselessly trying to stem the flood from her nostrils with the back of her hand.

It helps to remind myself that many of our visits have been stressful ones with a limp, feverish child in tow.