The family is sharing Caleb Ziegelbauer's story to help prevent others from falling victim to Naegleria fowleri.
After contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba after a day-trip with his family to a Florida beach, a 14-year-old boy is lucky to have survived the infection that has a 97 percent fatality rate.
While tests came back as inconclusive, doctors believe that Caleb, then 13, was infected by Naegleria fowleri, which infects people by traveling through the nose to the brain, where it destroys the tissue and causes deadly primary amebic meningoencephalitis . PAM is almost always fatal,Naegleria fowleri parasites infect people when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose, traveling up to the brain, where it destroys tissue. A Florida teen is among the rare cases of survival.
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