/ Source: The Associated Press
The Rev. Jerry Falwell has checked into a hospital for treatment of a viral infection.
Falwell, 71, was taken Sunday to Lynchburg General Hospital after falling ill at a church service. He had battled a severe cold last week and saw a doctor Friday.
“It’s not considered dangerous,” said Falwell, a television evangelist and chancellor of Liberty University in Lynchburg. “It is just troublesome. I am going to be here a few days.”
Falwell said doctors planned to keep him at the hospital “until my lungs clear.”
