What other symptoms you are facing besides fever which make you feel that whiskey was poisonous slight temperature rise is very normal after alcohol consumption since digestion of alcohol is exothermic reaction which releases heat resulting into the rise in body temperature.
If the whiskey would had been poisonous see would feel other symptoms like palpitation gastric and easiness headache etc.
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