5-year-old girl in Kerala dies from brain-eating amoeba after swimming in contaminated pond water.

5-year-old girl in Kerala dies after swimming in contaminated pond water, infected by brain-eating amoeba. The girl, from Moonniyur panchayat, passed away at Kozhikode Medical College's Institute of Maternal and Child Health after a week of treatment. The infection, amoebic meningoencephalitis, is caused by free-living amoebae bacteria entering the body through the nose from contaminated water.