brain eating amoeba

A Texas city declared disaster after a brain-eating amoeba was found in their local water supply after the death of a six-year-old boy, Josiah McIntyre after playing in the water in Lake Jackson.

Lily Mae Avant swam in a river and lake over the Labor Day holiday weekend earlier in September, then suffered a headache and a fever the following weekend

The health officials earlier said that the single-cell micro-organism, naegleria fowleri, had claimed the lives of seven people in Sindh province.