Woman, 30, dies from brain-eating amoeba she caught in indoor pool

A young woman has died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba from an indoor swimming pool.

The 30-year-old is believed to have caught Naegleria fowleri — which is fatal in 97 percent of cases — from a wave pool in .

She is thought to have been learning how to surf when water got up her nose — the main way that people are infected with the amoeba.

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