ORLANDO, Fla. — A South Florida boy has survived a rare brain-eating amoeba that kills most people, aided in part because a hard-to-get drug to fight the infection is made by a company based in Orlando where he was hospitalized, doctors said Tuesday. The infection has a fatality rate of 97 per cent and another boy died from it at the same hospital two years ago. “It wasn’t very clear-cut and I’m still shaking about the whole case.”DeLeon, who had worked as a camp counsellor in Broward County, was infected in South Florida. His parents took him to the emergency room at Florida Hospital almost a day and a half later when his headache worsened. Because the amoeba infection is so rare, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention typically flies the drug miltefosine to the patient.

Source: National Post August 23, 2016 21:45 UTC