A 12-year-old boy has been killed by a brain-eating parasite. Zachary Reyna, or Labelle, Fla., died at Miami Children's Hospital Saturday afternoon. According to CNN on Aug. 25, 2013, a ventilator was used so that his organs may be donated.

1. Brain-eating parasite kills Florida boy
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ain-eating-parasite-kills-florida-boy

2. A 12-year-old boy has been killed by a brain-
eating parasite. Zachary Reyna, of Labelle, Fla.,
died at Miami Children's Hospital Saturday
afternoon. According to CNN on Aug. 25, 2013,
a ventilator was used so that his organs may be
donated.

3. “Doctors had given Zachary an experimental
drug to treat the rare amoeba, called Naegleria
fowleri, that he had.“

4. The brain-eating parasite infected the boy when
he was playing in a water filled ditch with his
friends. The Florida Department of Health sent
out a warning about swimming in ditches and
ponds during periods of high temperatures. This
story was originally covered on Aug. 16, "Brain-
eating warning: Deadly amoeba sickens young
boy in Florida.”

5. This is the second instance this summer of a
child being infected by a brain-eating parasite
under similar circumstances. Another 12-year-
old, Kali Harding, contracted the parasite in
Arkansas as reported here, "Parasitic meningitis:
New confirmed case in Arkansas." She is
recovering and is only the third person in the
United States to do so.

6. This brain-eating parasite is usually fatal. The
last confirmed case in the United States was
reported in 2010. Between 2001 and 2010, 32
people contracted it in the United States. This
disease cannot be spread from one person to
another.

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