Former US president George HW Bush has been admitted to hospital after contracting an infection that spread to his blood, his spokesman said Monday.
Bush, 93, is responding to treatments and appears to be recovering, Jim McGrath said on Twitter.
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The former president was admitted to hospital in Houston Sunday morning, just a day after the funeral for his wife Barbara, who died Tuesday.
Bush and his wife, who was 92, were married for 73 years. He served as vice president from 1981-89 and as president from 1989-93. The couples’ eldest son George W Bush was president from 2001-09.
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