Fox News Anchor Shares Encouraging Update On His ‘Awful’ Bout With Malaria

A Fox News anchor shared an encouraging update on his health days after announcing that he had contracted what he described as a “severe case of malaria.”

In a post to X on Sunday morning, Fox News anchor John Roberts announced that he is set to be released from the hospital.

“God willing, after 5 days and 6 nights at Inova Fairfax, I hope to be heading back home to my family today,” Roberts wrote.

Roberts painted an extremely bleak picture of his condition earlier in the week — as he battled the rare disease that approximately 2,000 Americans each year come down with, according to the CDC.

“Malaria is an awful disease that needs to be attacked full-force when a diagnosis is made,” Roberts wrote. “I’ve gone from being so sick that any dog would take pity on me to being ready to fire up the grill on Labor Day (well,maybe ready to watch the grill bring fired up).”

Malaria is transmitted via a bite from a female Anopheles mosquito. And Roberts — in his health update Sunday — shared a photo of one, along with a warning.

“Just stay away from these little effers…” the recovering anchor wrote.

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