[StBernard] Myths and Facts about drinking water in St. Bernard Parish

Westley Annis westley at da-parish.com
Wed Sep 25 07:47:38 EDT 2013



>which treatment was successfully used recently on the child who survived?


So easy to find:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/health/arkansas-amoeba-survivor/index.html

one of Kali's attending physicians, said doctors immediately started
treating her with an anti-fungal medicine, antibiotics and a new
experimental anti-amoeba drug doctors got directly from the CDC. They also
reduced the girl's body temperature to 93 degrees. Doctors have used that
technique in some brain injury cases to preserve undamaged brain tissue.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/girl-survived-brain-eating-amoeba-l
eaves-hospital-article-1.1453310



How Kali survived a brain-eating amoeba

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/usanow/2013/09/12/kali-hardig-brain-eatin
g-amoeba/2804763/

http://tinyurl.com/k889eo5






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