Aide: Rangel’s ailment was encephalitis (AP)

Congressman Charles Rangel, D-NY, delivers a speech framed by a photo of Cpl. Juan Alcantara during a special Citizenship Day naturalization ceremony in which Juan was awarded American Citizenship posthumously on Sept. 17, 2007 in New York.  Alcantara died Aug. 6 in Baqubah, Iraq, of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The illness that put Rep. Charles Rangel in a New York City hospital earlier this month was a brain-swelling virus, not the flu, a spokesman said Thursday.


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