How to Survive a Brain-Eating Amoeba

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

A 12-year-old girl in Arkansas is the third survivor of a deadly infection caused by the brain-eating parasite Naegleria fowleri. Doctors used cooling methods and experimental drugs to kill the parasite and save the girl.

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