John Roberts is battling a “severe” case of malaria.

The 68-year-old Fox News anchor has revealed that he has been hospitalized after he was diagnosed with the parasitic mosquito-borne illness on Monday, August 25.

“I had been hurting from the top of my head to the tip of my toes. Literally everywhere. I was also beset with uncontrolled shivering all during my show,” John told People on Thursday (August 28). “Initially, I thought it was just muscle cramps and aches. But when I started shivering, I started to lean toward the flu.”

He went on to say that he “knew it was bad” when his blood work showed that his platelets and white blood cells were both low.

“My rheumatologist told me to go to the ER,” he recalled.

Once he was in the hospital, that’s when John was officially

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