A Tragic Encounter with a Brain-Eating Amoeba in Texas It started like any other day at a peaceful Texas campground. A 71-year old woman was enjoying the quiet of her recreational vehicle (RV), completely unaware that a simple habit – rinsing her sinuses with tap water – would lead to a fatal infection. Days later, she dies from a rare and deadly organism known as a brain-eating amoeba. What Happened at the Campground? According to health officials, the woman had been using unboiled tap water from her RV’s water system to perform nasal irrigation over a period of four days. This water, likely contaminated with Naegleria fowleri, entered her body…