美国前总统老布什出院

Former U.S. president George H. W. Bush has been released from a hospital in Maine, four days after he fell and broke a bone in his neck.

The 91-year-old Mr. Bush, the oldest living former president, went into the hospital on Wednesday after breaking a vertebrae while at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine.

"He is in good enough condition that they can continue his recovery at home,'' Mr. Bush's spokesman Jim McGrath said.

Mr. Bush fractured his C2 vertebra, the second one below the skull, but it didn't affect his spine. Doctors treating him had called it "a significant injury," but said he was in excellent shape and they anticipated he would make a full recovery.

Mr. Bush, who has Parkinson's disease, was last hospitalized for a week in December due to breathing difficulties.

Mr. Bush is the father of former president George W. Bush and former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who is seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.