Amoeba treatment: Fort Worth hospital 1st in nation to have miltefosine on hand
by Press Release from Outbreak News Today on (#1J2T6)
Kyle Gracin Lewis died at Cook Children's Medical Center in the summer of 2010, from the Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), the brain infection caused by the water-born amoeba, known as Naegleria fowleri. Now Cook Children's is the first, and currently the only, hospital in the nation to house a life-saving investigational drug called miltefosine (trade ["]
