Autistic man improving after rescue in Wisconsin
(AP) - The condition of the autistic man who was rescued after seven days in the Wisconsin woods has improved from critical to serious.
A spokeswoman for the University of Minnesota's Fairview Hospital says on Friday that Keith Kennedy remains in the intensive care unit.
He'd been in critical condition since he was brought in Sunday.
The 25-year-old man was dehydrated, suffering from hypothermia and covered with ticks and bug bites when a St. Paul firefighter found him Sunday evening.
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Searchers were worried that Kennedy might suffer a medical emergency without the anti-rejection drugs he has taken since having a kidney transplant in 1995.
Kennedy ran away from a camp for disabled adults in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, on June 15.
His parents live in Roseville while their son lives in a group home in Shoreview.
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