A teenager survived being infected by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a polluted pond.
The boy fell ill with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, the mortality rate of which is 97%. Symptoms appeared 5 days after swimming: 14-year-old Afnan began to fall into convulsions and complain of a severe headache.
Doctors were unable to identify the disease, but the child's father remembered reading about a deadly infection that killed a boy in a neighboring Indian state.
Doctors injected a combination of antimicrobial drugs into the teenager's spine. On the first day, the patient was unconscious due to seizures. But after three days, Afnan's condition began to improve.
