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Robin Roberts is back in the hospital

SETBACK: Robin Roberts posted a note (left) on her Facebook page after fans noticed her absence. (
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Robin Roberts, who returned to “Good Morning America” in February after a grueling bone-marrow transplant, was hospitalized again this week, the popular morning show host said yesterday.

“Last week, in the middle of my Key West vacation, I began not to feel well. Nothing serious, just under the weather,” she wrote in a note to fans on her Facebook page.

“I contacted my doctors and flew back to NYC. They felt it best to admit me into the hospital for a few days.”

Roberts, 52, returned to “GMA” last February, exactly five months after undergoing a bone-marrow transplant to battle MDS, a rare blood disease likely triggered by the chemotherapy drugs she took during breast cancer treatment in 2007.

Her marrow donor was her older sister, Sally-Ann.

Roberts has been working shortened weeks since her return — under doctors’ orders to minimize contact with others because her immune system is still compromised, sources say. Doctors’ biggest fear for patients with reconstructed immune systems like Roberts’ is that they contract an infection their bodies will not be able to fight off.

“My doctors assured me that this was NOT because I was working or doing too much, too soon,” she wrote on Facebook.

“It’s extremely common, post-bone-marrow transplant, to have complications. I’m blessed that mine have not been severe.”

Roberts was diagnosed with MDS last June — a few months after “GMA” beat NBC’s “Today” show in the weekly ratings for the first time in 16 years.

She kept “GMA” viewers apprised of the ups and downs of her treatment nearly every step of the way, and her recovery has become something of a national obsession. Her doctors occasionally appeared on “GMA” to talk about what Roberts was going through in the different stages of her recovery.

President and Mrs. Obama even recorded a welcome-back video message when she returned two months ago.