Brain-Eating Amoebas Found in Water Supply

Friday, September 13, 2013 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Are brain-eating amoebas on the march? Normally seen in freshwater ponds and rivers across the South, the nasty little bugs — known to scientists as Naegleria fowleri — have now been found in the drinking water supply of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.

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