Florida Man gets confronted by amoeba; ends up winner

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http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/florida-teen-survives-brain-eating-amoeba-infection-n636816
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/23/health/brain-eating-amoeba-florida-teen-survives/

>A Florida teenager has beaten the odds, surviving an infection by a rare amoeba that kills nearly all of its victims.

>His family immediately brought him to the hospital, where doctors confirmed DeLeon was infected with the amoeba called Naegleria fowleri. Within 12 minutes, a newly-approved life-saving drug arrived at the hospital’s doors. The drug, miltefosine, comes from by a company called Profunda which happens to be based in Orlando. Treatment with the drug was credited with saving an Arkansas girl in 2013.

>It infects through the nose, traveling up the nerve cells that carry smell signals into the brain. Doctors are not sure how or why a very few people are susceptible, but it's clear that having water forced up into the sinuses, perhaps by dunking or diving, is an important factor.

>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has worked with the Food and Drug Administration to make miltefosine available directly from CDC for treating amoeba infections in the United States. The drug, sold under the trade names Impavido and Miltex, was approved to treat a different parasitic infection called leishmaniasis.