A Florida teenager was given four days to live when he was rushed to the emergency room.

Caleb Ziegelbaur, 14, contracted a brain-eating amoeba at Port Charlotte Beach in 2022. One year later, he beat the odds, surviving the amoeba's high fatality rate.

The brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, is contracted when infected waters enter through the nose and the amoeba travel up to the brain.


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