Fever (disambiguation)

Fever is an increase in internal body temperature to levels above normal.

Fever or The Fever may also refer to:

Film

Literature

The Fever (Bruce Springsteen song)

"The Fever" is an early Bruce Springsteen song, recorded and released on an extremely rare 7" demo to promote the band, coupled with 'Rendezvous', a live track recorded in New York - Rendezvous opens with Bruce calling out "New York! Go ahead, Max!". The single was released under The Jersey Devil and was pressed on Bruce Records, which was Springsteen's own independent label for his band. The Fever itself was performed by Springsteen in concert beginning in March 1973. It was recorded in 914 Sound Studios in May 1973, during sessions for Springsteen's second album The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, but was only used as a demo by manager Mike Appel's Laurel Canyon publishing arm and re-named "Fever For the Girl". In early 1974 Appel sent it to several progressive rock radio stations, where it became a "turntable hit" in the ramp-up of Springsteen expectations prior to Born to Run. The original Springsteen recording finally achieved an official release surfacing in 1999 on his 18 Tracks outtakes collection- the live b-side has never been officially released since in any other format, although a studio cut of Rendezvous was released on 'The Promise' cd in 2010. The Fever was recorded by UK singer Allan Rich in 1975 but failed to make much impact. In 1976, it was recorded on Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes' debut album I Don't Want to Go Home, entitled as "The Fever", and became better known. In 1979, The Pointer Sisters recorded the song under the title "(She Got) The Fever", for their album Priority.

The Fever (novel)

The Fever is a novel by American writer Megan Abbott first published in 2014 by Little, Brown and Company. It is Abott's seventh novel.

Abbott was inspired to write the novel by the 2012 LeRoy, New York Mass hysteria case.

Plot

Deenie Nash, a 16-year-old girl, has sex for the first time with Sean Lurie, a boy she works with. The following day she avoids seeing her friend Lise, believing that she'll be able to tell. Before she can see Lise again Lise has a fit in a classroom and is taken away. After a second fit at her home where she hits her head on a coffee table, Lise is taken to the hospital, where she falls into a coma.

A few days later Deenie's friend Gabby has a fit and develops facial tics. She is taken to the hospital but is almost immediately released. Afterwards, Deenie goes to visit Gabby at her home with their mutual friend Kim Court and is disappointed to find another friend of theirs, Skye, already there. Deenie begins to worry that Lise and Gabby have been struck by a virus that they obtained while swimming in the heavily polluted town lake and that she is next as she went swimming with them at the same time. Her fears are assuaged when Kim Court, who was not with them at the lake, develops bizarre symptoms and is briefly hospitalized as well.