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Florida teen Caleb Ziegelbauer battling suspected case of brain-eating amoeba for over 50 days #news #florida #floridanews #TexasNews #usanewstoday #usa #tampa
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News Content: A Florida teen has been battling an infection suspected to be caused by a rare, brain-eating amoeba for over 50 days, as his family prays for him to wake up, they said.

Caleb Ziegelbauer, 13, was suffering from a severe headache, high fever and hallucinations when his family brought him to Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers on July 9, according to Lee Health, the hospital's parent company. After quickly ruling out bacterial meningitis, doctors began treating the teen for primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a disease with similar symptoms that's caused by Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba that destroys brain tissue. Caleb swam in brackish water days before experiencing his symptoms, further causing doctors to suspect he was infected by the amoeba, the hospital said.

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