{"id":4581,"date":"2025-08-29T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:38:08","slug":"fox-news-john-roberts-hospitalized-with-severe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4581","title":{"rendered":"Fox News\u2019 John Roberts Hospitalized with \u2018Severe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Anchor\u2019s Malaria Diagnosis<\/strong><br>Longtime Fox News anchor John Roberts, 68, revealed he is battling malaria after returning from a two-week vacation in Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had been hurting from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. Literally everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was also beset with uncontrolled shivering all during my show,\u201d he told PEOPLE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hospitalization and Treatment<\/strong><br>Roberts sought medical help when blood tests showed low platelets and white blood cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy rheumatologist told me to go to the ER,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the hospital, he received IV artesunate, a standard treatment for severe malaria, calling it a \u201cbig gun\u201d against the parasites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Symptoms and Recovery<\/strong><br>\u201cI have never felt that sick in my life,\u201d Roberts admitted, describing fever swings and exhaustion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is expected to return to work on September 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Support and Expert Insight<\/strong><br>On social media, he thanked Trace Gallagher and hospital staff: \u201cI\u2019m the first case [of malaria] my doctor has ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jeffrey Horelick, a malaria survivor, expressed support, saying Roberts can recover: \u201cSending prayers for his swift recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anchor\u2019s Malaria DiagnosisLongtime Fox News anchor John Roberts, 68, revealed he is battling malaria after returning from a two-week vacation in Indonesia. \u201cI had been hurting from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. Literally everywhere. I was also beset with uncontrolled shivering all during my show,\u201d he told PEOPLE. Hospitalization&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4582,"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-4581","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\/4581","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=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4583,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions\/4583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}