The wife of US Secretary of State John Kerry was recovering in a hospital today after suffering a health scare, with doctors ruling out that she had had a stroke or heart attack.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, 74, remains in fair condition at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she was admitted on Sunday after showing "seizure-like symptoms," Kerry's personal spokesman Glen Johnson said.
Doctors were continuing tests, but she and her family were grateful "that physicians have ruled out a variety of possible triggers or other ailments, including heart attack, stroke, or a brain tumor," Johnson said.
As his wife's condition was "stable and improving," Kerry would "briefly" travel today to Washington to open long-planned annual talks between the United States and China.
"Members of the family will remain at the hospital before the secretary's return to Boston," Johnson added.
Heinz Kerry, a multilingual philanthropist born to Portuguese parents in colonial-era Mozambique, had fallen ill while the family were vacationing at their home on the upscale tourist resort of Nantucket Island, off Cape Cod.
