Naegleria: Fort Worth hospital 1st to house miltefosine in 2016, today it’s 21 hospitals
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#4FC5Q)
Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas became the first hospital in the nation in 2016 to house a life-saving investigational drug called miltefosine (trade name, Impavido) used to treat primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by the parasite, Naegleria fowleri. This was prompted after the drug, originally approved to treat another parasitic infection, leishmaniasis, ["]
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