News Contamination Water Issues
Brain-eating amoeba detected in Texas city’s water supply after 6-year-old contracts parasite and dies

September 30, 2020 By KTLA5/Associated Press

Houston, Texas – A Houston-area official says it will take 60 days to ensure a city drinking water system is purged of a deadly brain-eating amoeba, naegleria fowleri, that led to warnings over the weekend not to drink tap water following the death of a child. KTLA5/Associated Press reports. | READ MORE