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Robin Roberts spent two days in the hospital fighting off an infection as part of her recuperation from a rare blood disease and is off Good Morning America this week to rest. The ABC News morning-show host said she felt ill last week while on vacation and was told to return to New York and go to the hospital. She’s home now and posted Thursday on Facebook that she’s feeling much better. Roberts underwent a bone-marrow transplant in September to treat MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease. She was off work for five months before returning part time to the top-rated show in February. She’s generally worked three days a week, occasionally four. At the beginning of her return, ABC kept a potential fill-in on call at the studio in case she was feeling too ill to continue, the network said. Roberts said doctors told her that her setback did not occur because she was working or doing too much. “It’s extremely common, post-bone marrow transplant, to have complications,” she wrote. “I’m blessed that mine have not been severe.” She said she planned to be back in front of the camera next week. Roberts also wrote that her heart goes out to Boston residents. “It saddens me that I haven’t been able to join my colleagues in covering this important story,” she said.

Actor Wes Studi is set to become the second American Indian inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Hall of Great Western Performers in Oklahoma City. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that the Dances with Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans star will be inducted Saturday with the late film noir actor Robert Mitchum. The Arroyo Hondo resident also is known for his roles as the Apache leader in Geronimo: An American Legend and Navajo detective Joe Leaphorn in the made-for-TV movies based on mysteries by the late New Mexican writer Tony Hillerman. The only other American Indian in the Hall of Great Western Performers is Jay Silverheels, a Canadian Mohawk First Nations actor known for playing Tonto in the 1950s television series The Lone Ranger.