'Send your prayers': Girl in medically-induced coma after contracting brain-eating amoeba infection

FORT WORTH, Texas — A 10-year-old girl is now fighting to live at a hospital in Fort Worth after she contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming near her Central Texas home. Lily Mae Avant was flown to Cook Children's Medical Center on Tuesday after her family said she started to get a headache, had a fever and became incoherent. Avant is now in a medically-induced coma.Doctors said she contracted a Naegleria fowleri, a single-celled living organism commonly found in warm freshwater th