India, June 6 -- A woman in Texas died from a rare brain infection after using tap water to clean her sinuses, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The previously healthy 71-year-old woman used a nasal rinse device filled with unboiled tap water from an RV's water faucet while staying at a campground, the agency noted.
Four days later, she began showing serious symptoms like fever, headache, and confusion. Doctors suspected a rare but deadly brain infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), caused by a microscopic organism called Naegleria fowleri, also commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba.
Despite receiving treatment, the woman had seizures and died eight days after symptom...