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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington on Monday after developing a fever.
The 78-year-old was admitted to the hospital within the “afternoon for evaluation and observation,” Angel Urena, Clinton's deputy chief of staff, said in a press release.
“He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving,” Urena said.
Clinton, a Democrat who served two terms as president from January 1993 to January 2001, gave a speech on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer and endorsed Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris' unsuccessful bid for the White House ahead of November's election a.
In the years since Clinton left the White House, he has faced numerous health problems.
In 2004, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery after affected by persistent chest pain and shortness of breath. Clinton returned to the hospital in 2005 for surgery for a partially collapsed lung and had a pair of stents implanted in a coronary artery in 2010.
Clinton responded by adopting a largely vegan food plan, which led to weight reduction and improved health.
In 2021, the previous president was hospitalized in California for six days while being treated for an infection unrelated to COVID-19, when the pandemic was still near its peak.
An aide to the previous president said on the time that Clinton had a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream but was on the mend and had never suffered septic shock, a potentially life-threatening condition. The aide said Clinton was within the hospital's intensive care unit on the time, but was not being treated within the intensive care unit.
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