Brain-eating amoeba that kills in a matter of days found in the water in Louisiana parish – but officials tell residents it’s safe to drink

‘A deadly brain-eating amoeba has been found in the drinking water in the same Louisiana parish where a 4-year-old boy died from an infection of the killer organism in 2013.

Officials with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals announced Wednesday that Naegleria fowleri amoeba had been detected in two of the seven water sites in St Bernard Parish.

While the water is safe to drink, officials say that that residents should be wary not to get water in their noses while bathing or swimming in parish water since that’s how the amoeba enters the brain. It can not spread person to person.’

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