Ten Killed by Brain Eating Amoeba

Health officials in Pakistan are warning the public to be extra careful to only use clean water, after ten people, in Karachi, have died from a brain eating amoeba.

The amoeba, naegleria fowleri, survives in warm water and it's favorite meal is human brain tissue.

Hopes are that an increase of chlorine, in the local drinking water, as well as boiling of water, will kill off the organism.

It's thought to be most possible that people have become infected when they used water to clean out their nasal passage, which is a common practice, in that part of the world.