The other two patients had died from the brain-eating amoeba. But Dr. Conrad had just heard of a new drug called miltefosine, which had been approved as an experimental treatment for N.

There, the first son kept his drug paraphernalia “locked up” in ... her younger single girlfriends — a group she dubbed the “Amoeba” — to Hunter. She was on call to drive him around ...

While extremely rare, Naegleria fowleri can lead to death — but there are precautions people can take to avoid contracting the amoeba Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE ...