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TEXAS - A woman has died after being infected by a brain-eating amoeba, which the CDC believes happened after she cleaned her sinuses with tap water at a campground in Texas .

The CDC's report says the 71-year-old woman fell ill within four days of using the water from an RV at the campground.

Texas Brain-Eating Amoeba Death

What we know:

According to the Center of Disease Control's Morbity and Mortality Weekly Report, which was made public on Thursday, their investigation found that the woman died from a brain infection caused by primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM).

The woman, who they say was healthy before the infection, reportedly used a nasal irrigation device filled with tap water from an RV's water system at a campground in Texas. The CDC says she used the

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