DHH official: Chances slim brain-eating amoeba infects Baton Rouge water

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While a brain-eating amoeba has found its way into drinking water systems in St. Bernard, Ascension and Terrebonne parishes since 2013, Baton Rouge residents are far less likely to find the parasite in their water supply, a top state health official said Monday. Dr. Jimmy Guidry, Louisiana’s state health officer and the Department of Health

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