A Texas woman died from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba days after cleaning her sinuses using tap water, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case report.

A woman in Texas has died after contracting a fatal brain amoeba from contaminated water. The patient, 71, had used a nasal irrigation device filled with unboiled tap water from an RV’s water ...

(NBC5) 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 an RV campground to clear out her sinuses last year, the Centers ...

A Texas woman has died after being infected by a rare brain-eating amoeba after using tap water to clear out her sinuses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced. The 71-year-old ...

A Texas woman died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba from tap water used to clear out her sinuses. (NBC5) A Texas woman died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba from tap water used to ...

A 71-year-old woman died from a brain-eating amoeba infection after cleaning her sinuses with unboiled tap water from an RV at a campground in Texas. The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, is rare but ...

Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, lives in warm freshwater and can enter the nose during water activities. Infections are rare but often fatal, causing primary amebic meningoencephalitis ...