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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 91%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  A brain biopsy and other tests revealed not a tumor, but an incredibly rare infection of the central nervous system caused by the amoeba Balamuthia mandrillaris.
  As his UCSF medical team recounted in a paper last month, a desperate hunt for a cure led them to a study published several years ago in which researchers showed a drug originally developed in Europe to quell urinary tract infections was effective against Balamuthia in the laboratory.
  Nitroxoline is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, which meant the medical team had to file an Emergency Investigational New Drug application for permission to use it-and then find a source for the drug.
  
  
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