Texas: Brazos River Authority advises public of brain-eating amoeba as summer nears

By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews Last fall, 10-year-old Lily Mae Avant from Bosque County, Texas contracted the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri while swimming in the Brazos River and later died from the infection. Last week, officials with the Brazos River Authority published an advisory about the water-born amoeba that resides in all lakes, streams, rivers and ponds in [...]

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