Docs thought she had cancer...then they discovered brain-eating amoeba

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An elderly woman in rural China died from the rare brain-eating amoeba Balamuthia mandrillaris, which doctors initially mistook for a brain tumor. The parasite has infected just 200 people worldwide.

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