Senator Byrd Hospitalized With Minor Infection Over The Weekend

Senator Robert C. Byrd, the longest serving member of Senate, was hospitalized last Friday with fever that was caused by a minor infection, but is expected to be released within a couple of days. Senator Byrd, who is 91, was one of the two American officials who have collapsed at President's Obama inauguration back in January of this year. Ted Kennedy was the other senator who had a seizure during the lunch following Obama's inauguration. Kennedy was suffering from brain tumour at the time.

Byrd's health has been frail lately. He was hospitalized for a fall in February of 2008 and an infection in June of same year.