Naegleria fowleri: Rapid treatment credited with saving Sebastian DeLeon’s life
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#1RECX)
For the fourth time since 1962 in the United States, an individual survived the parasitic disease, primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by Naegleria fowleri. During a press conference today at Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando, we learned that 16-year-old Sebastian DeLeon survived the lethal amoeba responsible for a case fatality rate of 97 percent. A rapid medical response, ["]
