Boy dies after catching brain-eating bug from water used at public park's splash pad
dailystar.co.ukDaily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A boy died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba from a public park's splash pad amusement in Texas.
The boy had been on the splash pad in Arlington's Don Misenhimer Park in Texas several times over the summer and despite initially showing uncertainty as to where the culpability lay, the city has now said the death could have been because of human error.The Tarrant County Public Health Department first said in a statement it "determined two possible sources for the child’s exposure to water containing Naegleria fowleri: the family’s home in Tarrant County or the Don Misenhimer Park splash pad in Arlington."Officials in Arlington, located between Dallas and Fort Worth, said the city and.
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