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16. Software guru McAfee did not have heart attack: lawyer

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 08:21 PM

Dec 2012

Reuters

5:56 p.m. CST, December 6, 2012

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Software pioneer John McAfee did not have a heart attack in Guatemala as originally thought, but is suffering from stress and hypertension, his lawyer Telesforo Guerra said on Thursday.

"He never had a heart attack. Nothing like that," Guerra said in Guatemala City. "I'm not a doctor. I'm just telling you what the doctors told me. He was suffering from stress, hypertension and tachycardia (an abnormally rapid heartbeat)."

After being rushed to a hospital in an ambulance on Thursday, McAfee, 67, was later spirited out of the building out of sight of reporters and into a police patrol car, Guerra said ...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-belize-mcafee-stressbre8b51mw-20121206,0,3634419.story

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