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This is what it's like to treat a 'brain-eating' amoeba infection" target="_self" data-before-rewrite-localise="/health/...
In August 2013, an 8-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital in San Antonio, Texas after contracting a so-called brain-eating amoeba infection. His case was unusual because he ultimately survived: Brain-eating amoeba infections are nearly always fatal. The …