An obsolete treatment for syphilis involved inducing fever by deliberately infecting patients with the agent of relapsing fever. An experimental AIDS treatment involved infecting patients with malaria to induce high fevers. Can you provide some possible explanations behind these peculiar forms of treatment?
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