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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who was hospitalized last week with an "extended fever," was released from over the weekend and expects to make a full recovery.

Wilson's office confirmed two weeks ago that the congressman was experiencing symptoms consistent with Lyme disease. Symptoms persisted until the congressman was hospitalized last Thursday for treatment of what his office called "a chronic viral-type infection."

Doctors at Lexington Medical Center in Wilson's home state were able to eliminate ! Lyme disease as Wilson's diagnosis, although the origin of his symptoms remains unknown.

"I'm doing much better," Wilson said Friday in an interview from his hospital bed, local South Carolina news site Lexington Patch reported. "The infectious disease personnel here have gone through every type of fever consequence, and the good news is they've been negative."

Wilson was released from the hospital Saturday.

Wilson's son Alan, who is the South Carolina Attorney General, said Monday that his dad was "up and walking around" on Sunday. "He's still weak but he's getting better everyday and it's just a process," Alan Wilson said, ! accor ding to the Patch.

Wilson's office rescheduled a week of events in his district for August until late September, after the end of the congressional recess.