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Posted: September 23, 2009 at 5:05 a.m.
Sen. Robert Byrd, 91, a West Virginia Democrat and the longest-serving senator in history, fell at his home in northern Virginia and was admitted to a Washington area hospital after blood tests showed his white blood-cell count was high, which raised the possibility of an infection, his office said in a statement.
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