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<p>WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. &#8212; An outbreak of respiratory illness swept through Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign in the weeks before she was diagnosed with pneumonia and fell ill at this year&#8217;s 9/11 memorial ceremony, campaign aides said Monday.</p><p>The Democratic presidential candidate abruptly left Sunday&#8217;s event after feeling &#8220;overheated.&#8221; A video later posted on Twitter showed her staggering and eventually slumping forward before being held up by three people as she was helped into a van.</p><p>On Sunday, her campaign answered questions about Clinton&#8217;s health and whereabouts with two short statements, both issued hours after she left the memorial in lower Manhattan. More than 20 hours later, her campaign gave a fuller accounting of the episode, which sparked a wave of bipartisan concern about her health and questions about her political transparency.</p><p>Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said the former secretary of state started to feel hot at the event, which took place on a muggy day in New York. There was little shade where Clinton was standing alongside other dignitaries.</p><p>As family members of 9/11 victims read the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks, she decided to leave and get a drink of water. She was wearing a wool suit and had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday, a fact her campaign had not made public.</p><p>In fact, campaign aides said Monday, a number of staff members at her campaign headquarters had been ill in recent weeks, including campaign manager Robby Mook.</p><p>&#8220;I probably came in a few more days than I should have over the last few weeks,&#8221; he told MSNBC on Monday. &#8220;I&#8217;m still actually recovering from the cough that I got through that.&#8221;</p><p>As Clinton walked to the motorcade, she began to feel dizzy and had to be helped into her van. She never lost consciousness, Fallon said. Shortly after entering the air-conditioned vehicle, he said, she began calling aides and requested to go to her daughter&#8217;s Manhattan home.</p><p>At the apartment, she played with her grandchildren, even chasing them around the room, Fallon said. Clinton exited the building on her own, wearing sunglasses and carrying a handbag.</p><p>She waved to reporters and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling great. It&#8217;s a beautiful day in New York.&#8221; She was then driven to her home in suburban Chappaqua, New York.</p><p>The public was left in the dark about Clinton&#8217;s whereabouts for about 90 minutes, sparking widespread speculation about her condition. That was a mistake, Fallon said.</p><p>&#8220;In those 90 minutes that elapsed, we could have gotten more information out more quickly,&#8221; he said in an interview on MSNBC. &#8220;That&#8217;s on us and we regret that.&#8221;</p><p>Clinton&#8217;s doctor, Lisa R. Barback, later came to her home and conducted an examination. In a statement released by the campaign eight hours after the incident, Bardack said the 68-year-old Clinton &#8220;became overheated and dehydrated&#8221; at the 9/11 ceremony. By the end of the day, she was &#8220;rehydrated and recovering nicely,&#8221; she said.</p><p>Campaign aides said it was Clinton&#8217;s decision to attend weekend fundraisers and the Sunday ceremony, despite Friday&#8217;s diagnosis. Late Sunday evening, she canceled a California campaign swing scheduled for early this week. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton will headline some of her events, an aide announced late Monday.</p><p>Hillary Clinton is expected to be back on the campaign trail as soon as Wednesday.</p><p>&#8220;It was her decision to want to press on,&#8221; Fallon said in an interview on CNN. &#8220;But I think after yesterday&#8217;s incident, everybody was agreed that she should take a couple of days off the trail.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves after leaving an apartment building Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, in New York. Clinton's campaign said the Democratic presidential nominee left the 9/11 anniversary ceremony in New York early after feeling &quot;overheated.&quot; (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/web1_Clinton.jpg</photo0><caption0>Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves after leaving an apartment building Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, in New York. Clinton's campaign said the Democratic presidential nominee left the 9/11 anniversary ceremony in New York early after feeling &quot;overheated.&quot; (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)</caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
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Illness hit Clinton campaign staff before candidate got pneumonia