Texas city where boy, 6, died of brain-eating amoeba to purge water system for 60 days

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A Houston-area city where a 6-year-old boy died of a brain-eating amoeba will purge its water system for 60 days to ensure it is safe for residents.

and typically occurs when people go swimming in warm freshwater places, like lakes and rivers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in guidance on its website."Once the ameba enters the nose, it travels to the brain," where it causes a condition that is usually fatal.

“We found out that it was, most likely, this amoeba that was causing all of these symptoms,” Castillo said. Doctors took measures to alleviate swelling in the child’s brain and tried to save him. But Josiah died on Sept. 8 at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. The family told city officials of two possible places where Josiah may have been exposed to the naegleria fowleri microbe, a city splash pad and the hose at the family's home.

Mundo said testing of 11 samples of the city’s water found three with preliminary positive results for the microbe — in a storage tank for the splash pad, a dead-end fire hydrant downtown near the splash pad, and in the hose bib at Josiah's home.

 

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As the climate warms.. .

Even worse is the damage to soil used for growing food. The reason for all the recalls of fruit and Vegetable in the past few years is the deregulation of Pesticide and Insecticide has allowed the Bacteria (ecoli etc..) and Virus to live and grow in the Soil uncontrolled.

Trump deregulated America where splash pads aren't safe.

This explains Westbrook's playoff performance

So one boy is worth all this effort but 200K folks aren't wearing masks?

As soon as Trump got to office he was bent on destroying EPA & cut what he called 'red tape' deregulating codes that maintain standards for clean air & water! Trump lets things like this happen with cuts to EPA & leaving cities unchecked with no idea about our safety-EX:Covid!

Whatever happens in Texas...let it remain there.

Praying for all

Fear wins

Brain-eating amoebas... This could explain trump supporters.

Seems Like They Are Adding The Rest Of The VIRUSES In The Mix.😷😷 Blame It On COVID19 / CHINA & ISIS Etc.🙄🙄🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😷😷😷 Good Distractions Form Grab Them By The P...y🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Not Just R But R & D Both The Right / Left / MIC Etc.

Too late for Trump...

I never would have thought this would happen while using tap water for a splash pad or kiddie pool at home. This is scary.

After every flooding event and all the hurricanes, the water system should be flushed and purged for just such a reason. Why wasn't this procedure followed after the last flood?

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Send Trump to test it! He doesn't have a brain so he's completely safe

Isn’t this Koch country, could the amoeba have come from something they released? Trump has removed so many protections one must ask

In a perfect world humans would do the right thing. Since it isn't that way, that's why we have to regulate our air and water. To keep everyone safe

Environmental justice must be addressed.

This is what I imagine the Biden administration will have to do to the White House

I get Republicans can’t tell the people how the hell this got into the Drinking water system

Keep deregulating, Republicans. You’ll kill us all.

Why not do the same to flint I guess a white kid gotta die 1st before change comesAknocking

Republicans love it when drinking water systems are not regulated.

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