Fox News anchor John Roberts won’t be in his usual seat on weekday afternoons as he battles malaria.

Roberts, 68, announced in a Tuesday post on X that he is temporarily out of the studio after he acquired the disease passed on to humans by mosquitoes.

“I somehow came down with a severe case of malaria,” he wrote. “I can honestly say that I am the only person in the hospital with malaria. In fact, one of my doctors said I’m the first case he has ever seen.”

Roberts thanked his fellow Fox News host Trace Gallagher for filling in his seat as Sandra Smith’s co-anchor on America Reports, which airs weekdays at 1 p.m.

The anchor also gave a shoutout to his doctors at Inova Health, a healthcare provider headquartered in Virginia.

The announcement was met with shock by Roberts’ X followers,

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