Ex-President George HW Bush in intensive care after suffering setbacks ...

Former President George HW Bush was admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever, but he is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said Wednesday.

HOUSTON -- Former U.S. president George HW Bush is now in a Houston-area hospital's intensive care unit "following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever.

HOUSTON -- Former U.S. president George HW Bush is now in a Houston-area hospital's intensive care unit "following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever.

Mr Bush was initially hospitalised with a bronchitis-like cough on Nov 23. He was moved to intensive care on Sunday. Former US Presidents George W Bush (left) and his father George HW Bush are seen in Texas in 2009. George Bush Sr has been

By Charles Hadlock and Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News. Updated at 7:08 p.m. ET: Former President George H.W. Bush was battling an elevated fever Wednesday and was in "guarded condition" in a hospital intensive care unit, a family spokesman said.