Reports said that Bill Clinton developed a urinary tract infection that turned into sepsis. (file)
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Former US President Bill Clinton was discharged from a hospital in California on Sunday after spending five nights in treatment for the infection.
Clinton, hand-in-hand with his wife and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, gave a thumbs up after slowly exiting the hospital and shaking hands with staff in front of television cameras.
Clinton, 75, was discharged today from UC Irvine Medical Center, said a statement by UC Irvine Dr. Alpesh Amin, released through a Clinton spokesman.
“His fever and white blood cell count have returned to normal and he will return to New York to complete a course of antibiotics,” said Amin, who oversaw the team of doctors treating the former president.
The US leader from 1993 to 2001 was admitted to a hospital south of Los Angeles on Tuesday evening with a non-Covid-related blood infection, his spokesman Angel Ureena said on Twitter.
The New York Times quoted a colleague as saying that Clinton developed a urinary tract infection that turned into sepsis.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sepsis is an extreme physical response to infection that affects 1.7 million people in the US annually.
It kills 270,000 of those infected each year.
The infection was the latest health crisis for the 42nd President of the United States. In 2004, at the age of 58, he had a quadruple bypass operation after doctors found signs of extensive heart disease.
Six years later, stents were placed in his coronary artery.
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