A grieving family want answers on how a 17-year-old boy contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba and died.
"To think he's really gone hurts too much." Hundreds of people gathered in Pacifica on Saturday for the third annual HOPE Memorial Walk, a community event dedicated to honoring those lost to drug overdoses and educating the public about prevention, recovery and harm reduction.
The tally of people sickened by the parasite is now 11,458.
A central North Carolina teen is critically ill with a rare amoeba-related brain infection.
The updated vaccines protect against the XFG strain.