10-year-old girl fighting for her life at Texas hospital after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in river.
Lily Mae Avant spent Labor Day weekend with her family swimming in the Brazos River, which winds through their backyard in Whitney, Texas, a small city near Waco. She came down with a headache and fever soon after, on Sept. 8. Over the following days, she began acting strangely, according to her family.
The fatality rate for Naegleria fowleri infections is over 97%. Only four out of 145 known-infected individuals in the United States have survived since the amoeba was first identified in the 1960s, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lily was given an amoeba-fighting pill and was placed in a medically-induced coma in what has become the fight of her life.
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