Jackson 'stable'
February 17, 2005 Edition 1
Santa Maria: Pop star Michael Jackson left hospital in a stable condition, one day after he was rushed to the emergency room on his way to his child sex trial.
Barely a few minutes earlier, a doctor who treated Jackson at the hospital in Santa Maria, California, said the singer was "in a stable condition, but remains under observation".
"He continues to need care for some persistent viral symptoms, but otherwise he is in good spirits," Todd Bailey said outside the Marian Medical Centre, a few kilometres from the courthouse where Jackson's sexual abuse trial is set to resume next week.
Jackson was treated for flu-like symptoms and vomiting. - Sapa-AFP
