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OMAHA, Neb.—A child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in an ...

Last month, a Missouri resident died of the same infection

People are usually infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose while swimming or diving into lakes and rivers. Other sources have been documented, including tainted tap water in a Houston-area city in 2020.

OMAHA, Nebraska: A child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in an eastern Nebraska river, health officials said, making it the second such probable death in the Midwest this summer and raising the question of whether climate change is playing a role. The Douglas County Department of Health based in Omaha, Nebraska, reported

Once considered rare, deadly amebic infections are becoming more common and there's one thing to blame.