Name: 10-year-old girl fighting brain-eating amoeba at Fort Worth hospital
Uploaded: 9/13/2019 11:26:16 PM
Duration: 104
Description: Lily Mae Avant, 10, who lives near Waco, is in a medically-induced coma at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth after contracting a brain-eating amoeba. Her family believes Lily contracted the amoeba while swimming in the Brazos River in her backyard.

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