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CRAWFORD - President George W. Bush's wife, Laura Bush, has been suffering from a pinched nerve in her neck and shoulder area and will not travel with the President to the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum in Sydney next month.
"Her physicians have strongly advised her to not travel overseas in order to avoid potential complication and aggravation by extended long distance travel," her spokeswoman, Sally McDonough, said in a statement.
The injury occurred while Bush was hiking in April, McDonough said. She said the White House did not previously disclose the injury because it had not affected the first lady's public schedule until now.
- Reuters
