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Brain-eating amoeba: How are people infected?
A 71-year-old woman died after developing a rare and deadly brain infection linked to using tap water from an RV's water ...
A Texas woman died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after using tap water in a sinus rinse, a CDC report says. Here's what to ...
Here's a grim reminder about nasal irrigation safety: a 71-year-old Texas woman is dead after using RV campground tap water ...
Summer is when families are most at risk for brain-eating amoeba. Infections are rare, almost always deadly. How to go ...
A 71-year-old Texas woman has died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba. The woman was using tap water from ...
The report says she developed severe neurologic symptoms, including fever, headache, and altered mental status. She died ...
A Texas woman died from a rare brain infection after she flushed her sinuses with tap water, the Centers for Disease Control ...
A woman in Texas used unsafe water for nasal irrigation and caught the violent Naegleria fowleri. She died 8 days later.
A 71-year-old woman in Texas died after using unboiled tap water from an RV for nasal rinsing, leading to a rare but fatal ...
The fatal brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri claimed the life of a Texas woman who used contaminated water in her nasal ...
The CDC said a 71-year-old woman in Texas died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba infection from using tap water to ...
Naegleria fowleri, also known as a brain-eating ameba, is a "one-celled organism that thrives in warm freshwater lakes, ...