Cleanup Efforts for Brain-Eating Amoeba Could Take Months, Texas Warns

Cleanup Efforts for Brain-Eating Amoeba Could Take Months, Texas Warns
Investigators from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality are present on a scene in Lake Jackson to conduct water sampling after a brain-eating amoeba was detected in the water supply in Lake Jackson, Texas, on Sept. 26, 2020. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality/Handout via Reuters
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Texas officials said on Tuesday it could take several months to ensure the public water system in Lake Jackson, Texas, is free of a brain-eating amoeba that causes a rare infection that killed a 6-year-old boy earlier this month.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other officials, speaking at a press conference, outlined a plan that would last into the fall, while seeking to assuage fears about the amoeba naegleria fowleri.