According to the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the first deaths from naegleria fowleri found in tap water from treated U.S. public drinking water systems occurred in southern Louisiana in 2011 and 2013. Now it has been found in The city of Lake Jackson, TX population 27,000.
The investigation into the death of a six year old boy on September 8, led to the detection of the brain-eating amoeba after heath officials conducted water sample tests according to a CBS News report.
Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic amoeba, or single-celled living organism commonly found in warm freshwater and soil, according to the CDC. It usually infects people when contaminated water enters the body through the nose. From there it travels to the brain and can cause a rare and debilitating disease called primary amebic meningoencephalitis.
The contamination of U.S. treated public water systems by the microbe is rare but not unheard of.
The microbe also was found in 2003 in an untreated geothermal well-supplied drinking water system in Arizona, as well as in disinfected public drinking water supplies in Australia in the 1970s and ’80s and in 2008 in Pakistan.
Full CBS News Story Here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-eating-amoeba-texas-water-supply-boy-death-investigation/
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