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Swine Flu-Hit Colombian President on Path to Recovery
Uribe's office announced Sunday that the Colombian leader appears to have fallen ill with the H1N1 virus after attending a regional summit last week in Argentina, and other governments had been notified .
Uribe's personal physician Gustavo Aristizabal told local radio that the Colombian leader would require two additional days of treatment, "but by Wednesday afternoon, he should be able to resume normal activity."
Aristizabal said Uribe first began to feel ill at around midday on Friday. But his symptoms, including persistent cough and fever, already appeared to be subsiding, the physician said.
"Since Saturday, the president has ceased to have fever. He shows general signs of illness - a sore throat, a little achiness in the chest - but now he is on the road toward full recovery," Aristizabal said.
The country's health minister Diego Palacio told reporters that he spoke with Uribe late Sunday and was monitoring how the illness progressed.
"It's going quite well," said Palacio, who is also a medical doctor, adding that he did not fear any major health consequences from Uribe's brush with the dreaded virus.
"The president seemed very animated and well on the road to recovery," Palacio said.
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