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Miracle Monday: teen survives brain-eating amoeba

It's Miracle Monday, and today we meet a 14-year-old boy who is proving his doctors wrong.

A 14-year-old boy is one of the only people to survive a deadly brain-eating amoeba Now he wants to find a vaccine

14-year-old Caleb Ziegelbauer contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming last summer. Today he is the 6th survivor of the rare infection.

Teen s Warning After Contracting Brain-Eating Amoeba at Florida Beach

The family is sharing Caleb Ziegelbauer s story to help prevent others from falling victim to Naegleria fowleri.

Florida teen battling suspected case of brain-eating amoeba for over 50 days

Courtesy Ziegelbauer family(NEW YORK) A Florida teen has been battling an infection suspected to be caused by a rare, brain-eating amoeba for over 50 days, as his family prays for him to wake up, they said. Caleb Ziegelbauer, 13, was suffering from a severe headache, high fever and hallucinations when his family brought him to Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers on July 9, according to Lee Health, the hospital's parent company. After quickly ruling out bacterial meningitis, doctors began treating the teen for primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a disease with similar symptoms that's caused by Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba that destroys brain tissue. Caleb swam in brackish water days before experiencing his symptoms, further causing doctors to suspect he was infected by the amoeba, the hospital said. Samples sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ultimately tested negative for Naegleria fowleri, though Caleb's doctors cont

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