Keith Kennedy, 25 year old autistic man was found alive in the Wisconsin woods a week after he disappeared from a camp for developmentally disabled adults near Grantsburg, Wisconsin.

"It's wonderful news. He's alive. It's miraculous. We just called his name and told him we're here for him and he's going to get better and he's going to get help," the elated mother, Linda Kennedy said after seeing her son.

Keith, who can speak only four words and requires anti-rejection drugs after he had a kidney transplant in 1995, had officials worried that if he missed too many doses of the drug, his kidneys might shut down.

The area he wandered into was rough terrain with swamps, forests, rivers and thick brush. Hundreds of people on foot, horseback in canoes and in helicopters searched for Keith and Burnett County Sheriff Dean Roland estimated that more than 40 square miles was searched.

The same area had been searched three times in the past week and the group of St. Paul and Maple Grove firefighters were about to conclude the fourth search by 7 PM on Sunday, when they found Keith, lying next to a stream. He was a mile west of the Trade Lake Camp

"Other than some scrapes and cuts and being covered with bugs, he looked pretty darn good. We're having a party right now," Roland said. No one knows how Keith managed to walk away from the camp as his family said he needed constant supervision.

Linda Kennedy said Keith seemed fine other than a few scrapes and dehydration. "Hopefully he'll survive this horrible ordeal. He's an incredibly strong individual," A dispatcher said Keith had been stabilized and flown to the University of Minnesota hospital in the twin cities.