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Scientists have identified Rutamycin B, a sea-derived compound that may rapidly neutralize the deadly brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.
A boy remains in critical condition after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba following a swim in the Sea of Galilee.
A nine-year-old Israeli boy is in critical condition after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in the Sea of Galilee.
A young girl from Ruston has died after contracting a rare and fatal brain-eating amoeba infection likely while swimming in a Louisiana lake.
An eight-year-old girl from Ruston, Louisiana, has died from a rare brain-eating amoeba infection.