Fans noticed his absence from America Reports<\/em> before he confirmed the diagnosis Tuesday, saying, \u201cI can honestly say I am the only person in the hospital with Malaria.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Roberts recently vacationed in Indonesia, visiting Sumba Island, a region with high malaria rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The CDC calls malaria a \u201csevere, potentially fatal disease\u201d<\/strong> that spreads through mosquito bites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roberts thanked doctors at Inova Health for their \u201cexpertise and compassion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n He didn\u2019t share a return date but acknowledged the seriousness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne of my doctors said I\u2019m the first case he has ever seen.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Messages of encouragement poured in, including, \u201cBeth and I are praying for a swift recovery,\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n and \u201cI hope you\u2019re pain-free and resting.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Roberts Faces Health Scare Fox News anchor John Roberts, 68, revealed he\u2019s hospitalized with a \u201csevere case of malaria.\u201d Fans noticed his absence from America Reports before he confirmed the diagnosis Tuesday, saying, \u201cI can honestly say I am the only person in the hospital with Malaria.\u201d How It Happened Roberts recently vacationed in Indonesia, visiting Sumba Island,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4543,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions\/4543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How It Happened<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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