CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that a 71-year-old Texas woman died in 2024 after contracting a brain-eating amoeba from using tap water in her recreational vehicle for a nasal rinse.

Health officials warn that the deadly amoeba, known as Naegleria fowleri, can be found in any freshwater source.

The woman's death highlights the importance of using only distilled, sterilized or properly boiled water for nasal irrigation devices like neti pots.

"When water is not cared for, when water is untreated, when temperatures begin to rise and the water heats up, it creates an environment that is just ripe for this brain-eating amoeba to develop, to grow," Stephen Stewart said.

Stewart represented the parents of Bakari Williams, a 3-year-old boy wh

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