A weekend swim left a young girl fighting for her life when she contracted a brain-eating amoeba with a 97% fatality rate. Lily Mae Avant, 10, swam in the Brazos River and Lake Whitney in Bosque County near Waco over Labor Day weekend.
A weekend swim left a young girl fighting for her life when she contracted a brain-eating amoeba with a 97% fatality rate.
Lily Mae Avant, 10, swam in the Brazos River and Lake Whitney in Bosque County near Waco over Labor Day weekend, according to CNN affiliate KWTX-TV. Brain-eating amoeba confirmed in New Jersey man's deathThen, on September 8, Lily"began having a headache, and it was quickly followed by a fever," according to a Facebook page created to support the girl.
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