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POPE-INFECTION Mar-31-2005 (130 words) xxxi
Pope receiving treatment for high fever, infection
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope John Paul II was suffering from a very high fever provoked by a urinary tract infection and was receiving antibiotics at the Vatican March 31, his spokesman said.
The 84-year-old pope, still recovering from a Feb. 24 tracheotomy, was struck by "a highly feverish illness caused by a documented infection of the urinary tract," said Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the Vatican spokesman.
"The appropriate antibiotic therapy was begun," the spokesman said in a statement issued late March 31.
Navarro-Valls also said the pope's condition "is strictly monitored by the Vatican medical team caring for him," apparently ruling out an immediate hospitalization.
In addition to the tracheotomy to ease severe breathing problems, Pope John Paul March 30 began receiving nutrition through a nasogastric tube.
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