Florida teen fighting for life after being infected by rare brain-eating amoeba
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Fort Meyers — A Florida teen is fighting to stay alive after, doctors say, a rare brain-eating amoeba got in through his nose and infected his brain.
A member of Caleb Ziegelbauer's family told CBS Miami the 13 year old went swimming at Port Charlotte Beach Park on July 1.
Five days later, he was in a hospital after he started hallucinating and becoming disoriented.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.