October 9, 1999
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• October 9, 1999 -- He is hospitalized for what his spokesman says is the flu and a fever.

• February 27, 1999 -- Yeltsin returns to the hospital because further treatment for the ulcer is necessary

• January 17, 1999 -- He is hospitalized for almost two weeks with a bleeding ulcer.

• November 22, 1998 -- Yeltsin is rushed to the hospital with pneumonia and fever. A week later, a spokesman acknowledges that he suffered "several" heart attacks during the 1996 election campaign.

• October 26, 1998 -- He cancels a trip to Austria because of what is described as unstable blood pressure and extreme fatigue. The next day he checks into the Barvikha sanitarium outside Moscow.

• October 12, 1998 -- Yeltsin cuts short trip to Kazakstan because of bronchitis.

• March 13, 1998 -- He suffers from what is described as acute laryngitis, an inflammation of the larynx and trachea. Doctors advise him to stay in bed.

• January 8, 1997 -- Hospitalized for a 12-day treatment of what doctors describe as "double pneumonia," he then spends a month recuperating at his country residence.

• November 5, 1996 -- Yeltsin undergoes quintuple heart bypass surgery at the Moscow Cardiological Center.

• June 1996 -- Yeltsin disappears from public view for the final week before the presidential election. Aides cite a sore throat, his wife blames a cold, but his doctor later acknowledges it was a heart attack

• October 26, 1995 -- Hospitalized for nearly a month with heart problems, he then spends another month recuperating at a government rest home.

• July 11, 1995 -- Hospitalized for two weeks with acute heart trouble, he then recuperates for two weeks at a government sanitarium

• September 1991 -- Heart trouble forces Yeltsin to stop work for two days and later to recuperate for two weeks by the Black Sea.

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