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NEW YORK—Louisiana municipalities are increasing chlorine levels in public water systems to combat a brain-eating amoeba responsible for causing three deaths in 2013, including that of a four-year-old boy.

Federal health official indicated the organism, Naegleria Fowleri, was living in water supply test sites in the DeSoto and the St. Bernard Parishes. Although the amoeba-contaminated water is safe to drink, if forced into the nose—by diving into a pool or other sites of warm, still water where the amoeba thrives—it can travel to the brain via the olfactory nerve and cause encephalitis.

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