US Justice Ginsburg in hospital with infection, court says

Supreme Court said Tuesday that Justice Ruth Ber Ginsburg has been mitted to hospital for treatment of a possible infection and will stay in hospital for a few days following a medical procedure.

court said in a statement that 87-year-old Ginsburg went to a hospital in Washington on Monday evening after experiencing fever and chills. She underwent a procedure at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, on Tuesday afteron to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August.

statement said justice “is resting comfortably and will stay in hospital for a few days to receive intraveus antibiotic treatment.”