Naegleria Fowleri Amoeba

The state Department of Health and Hospitals says water samples taken earlier this month across Desoto Parish Waterworks District-One have all tested negative for a rare amoeba.

Naegleria fowleri, sometimes referred to as the brain-eating amoeba or brain-eating ameba, is a single-celled, living organism that can cause a rare, but devastating infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM.