Arafat's doctors rule out leukaemia

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http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=612574§ion=news

Arafat's doctors rule out leukaemia
Sat 30 October, 2004 20:00

By Wafa Amr and Matthew Bigg

CLAMART, France (Reuters) - Yasser Arafat has undergone a battery of medical tests in France and senior aides said there was no immediate risk of the 75-year-old Palestinian leader dying, despite his serious condition.

Leila Shahid, the permanent Palestinian envoy to Paris, said after a day of brain and body scans and blood checks that there was nothing so far to prove he had leukaemia.

Arafat arrived in a military hospital in the Paris suburb of Clamart on Friday after a six-hour trip from his shell-battered compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Shahid, addressing the media outside the hospital after his first full day of tests, said that Arafat was "much better both physically and psychologically" and she strongly refuted speculation that he was suffering from leukaemia.

They state that they are looking into "other possibilities." Hmmm....

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1. This is it Elizabeth! It's the big one!