Health Care - General

A Young Woman Dies, A Teen Is Saved After Amoebas Infect The Brain

(By Abe Aborayai, VMFE and Michael Tomsic, WFAE for NPR)

Doctors describe 16-year-old Sebastian DeLeon as a walking miracle — he is only the fourth person in the U.S. to survive an infection from the so-called brain-eating amoeba. Continue reading article here……

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