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MANILA - A slice of pizza and a glass of ginger ale that he took from a pizza joint were the culprits behind the three-day hospital stay in New York by Press Secretary Jesus Dureza.

Still confined at the New York Presbyterian hospital but feeling much better, Dureza sent word to the Manila press on Sunday that doctors had told him that his intense tummy aches were the result of a bad case of food poisoning.

The 60-year-old Dureza said that he would leave the hospital on Monday and take the plane right away for Manila. He is due back home on Tuesday, in time for the birthday of his wife.

The press secretary was part of the lean delegation of President Macapagal-Arroyo who went to New York last week to attend the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The President returned home early Saturday morning, while Dureza stayed behind in New York on orders of his doctors who at that time were still running several tests to determine what was ailing him.

Dureza is the second member of President Arroyo’s official family to land in the hospital in less than a month.

Only a few weeks ago, National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales had an angioplasty, a procedure that corrected blocked blood vessels in the heart. Gonzales had since returned to his job.

Last August, President Macapagal-Arroyo had a bad case of food poisoning after she had a "lethal combination" of dinuguan (pig stew) and bilo bilo (glutinous rice), which she ate during the wake for the mother of Transportation and Communication Secretary Leandro Mendoza in Batangas.

More than three months into the job as press secretary, Dureza, who took over from Ignacio Bunye -- now a member of the Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas -- said it was the first time that he ever landed in the hospital.

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