I'm one of 4 people who survived the rare brain-eating amoeba - New York Post

A Florida student said he lost the majority of his motor skills after contracting a deadly brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a stagnant pond.

I had to, like, learn how to walk, how to write again, how to do all the basic stuff again,” Sebastian Deleon, 22, told Click Orlando of the harrowing saga.

“I went in, I believe, like, three times or twice,” said Deleon, who hadn’t heard of the parasite at the time.

However, a spinal tap revealed that he had the aforementioned water-borne amoeba, which medics suspected had infiltrated his noggin via his nose.

“Wow, I really am a miracle,” said Deleon while zooming into a 2016 Amoeba summit hosted by the Jordan Smelski Foundation for Amoeba Awareness.

Many experts say that the pupil survived because he took Impavido, an experimental drug from Germany that was also administered to two of the other amoeba survivors.

Just last month, a Missouri woman died after contracting the amoeba while swimming at an Iowa beach