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Examples
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She says parents should keep children home until they're fever-free and off symptom-reducing medicines for 24 hours.
Top reasons for school absences, and how to handle them 2011
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Students who've had H1N1 should only return to school when they've been fever-free for 24 hours.
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Still, my manager pointed out that daycare doesn't let kids come back until they've been fever-free for 24 hours and as that won't be until 7pm I'm instructed to not appear today 1.
phoenixbadger, reads badger 2006
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Medical update: Sign me up for the Tamiflu testimonials: after only two days, E is perky and almost fever-free.
Archive 2005-02-01 Becca 2005
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Medical update: Sign me up for the Tamiflu testimonials: after only two days, E is perky and almost fever-free.
My So-Called Life Becca 2005
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Even when he's fever-free and completely sane he'll say his mother intends to stay around until he no longer needs her guidance.
Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000
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They are part of that immense army of hirelings which descends annually, from the uplands of Tuscany to the very toe of Italy, into these low-lying regions, hardly an inch of which is fever-free.
Alone Norman Douglas 1910
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The instant he discovered Lutie he manifested an immense desire to live, and it was this desire that sustained a fearful shock when his fever-free eyes looked up into the face of his doctor.
From the Housetops George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Two days after the event, finally fever-free and somewhat cough-abated, we made our way to Costco and Petsmart to replenish our pantry.
unknown title 2009
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And, with regard to school -- after 24 fever-free hours without the aid of medications, he or she can go back.
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