document: Elizabeth Taylor will remain in the hospital six more weeks due to complications in her fifth week of treatment for pneumonia , doctors said . The recovery of Miss Taylor , near death two weeks ago with viral pneumonia , was dealt a setback by bacterial pneumonia and a yeast infection , her doctors said Friday . `` This secondary bacterial pneumonia often follows viral pneumonia . Her condition is listed as stable and she is improving significantly , '' they said in a statement released by St. John 's Hospital and Health Center . Earlier this week Miss Taylor 's New York publicist , Chen Sam , had said the 58-year-old actress was improving and would be released from the hospital this week to recuperate at home . During a news conference last month , Miss Taylor 's doctors revealed she was near death on April 22 . The Oscar-winning star of `` Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? '' and `` Butterfield 8 '' entered Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital on April 9 with a sinus infection , but her condition deteriorated and she was moved to St. John 's for treatment of viral pneumonia .
extractive_keyphrases: elizabeth taylor miss taylor recovery viral pneumonia yeast infection bacterial pneumonia
abstractive_keyphrases: 58-year-old actress st. john's hospital