Boxing legend home after follow-up care for infectionFamily and friends will join Ali for his birthday

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A spokesman for Muhammad Ali says the boxing legend has been released from a hospital where he received follow-up care for a severe urinary tract infection. It was the former heavyweight champion’s second hospital stay in the last four weeks.

A spokesman for the Ali family, Bob Gunnell, said the former world boxing champion left the undisclosed hospital on Friday and is back at one of his homes.

Ali and his wife, Lonnie, have homes in Arizona, Michigan and in his native Louisville.

Gunnell said Ali was looking forward to celebrating his 73rd birthday on Saturday with family and friends.

Ali was taken to hospital late last month with what was initially believed to be a mild case of pneumonia. Doctors later determined he was suffering from a urinary tract infection, not pneumonia. That hospital stay lasted until last week.