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I'd be glad to let you know what my personal opinion is, but I don't practice nursing here...Missouri scope of practice is very strict about things like that.

I'm REALLY glad he's going to the hospital--at least there they can do the tests that will let them find out what's going on. It's definitely not normal to run that high a fever, but fever can be due to a lot of things. Our concern here on this forum is naturally SARS, but we can't let that blind us to the fact that there are a lot of bugs out there that cause infections--kidney infections, for instance.

If he's run the temp for 12 days, and nobody else in the family is sick, then I would say it's likely that what he has isn't communicable--but again, I don't know what he has and don't have enough clues to even guess.

If they're not sick, then I don't see how there could be a problem for you or your family...