Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Battling Chronic Lung Infection

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The BBC reports:

Julian Assange, who is living at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, has a chronic lung infection “which could get worse at any moment”, the country’s ambassador to the UK has warned.

Ana Alban said the Wikileaks founder, who is fighting UK efforts to send him to Sweden, was suffering from living “in a confined space”.

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