Child dies of brain-eating amoeba likely contracted at Texas splash pad, officials say

A Texas child who died after contracting a rare, brain-eating amoeba was likely infected at a local splash pad, the City of Arlington announced in a press release Monday. Records from the Don Misenhimer Park splash pad showed employees did not consistently monitor water quality levels at the time of the child's visits to the park, the city said.

On September 5, local health officials were notified that a child was hospitalized at Cook Children's Medical Center with "primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a rare and often fatal infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri ameba," the press release said.

The child died in a hospital on September 11. Their name has not been released.