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A Missouri adult is hospitalized with a rare brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, likely contracted while water skiing.

Two Kansas children died from the same amoeba in 2011 and 2014.

The amoeba is found in warm freshwater and enters the brain through the nose, but infection is rare despite millions swimming annually.

Kansas children died in 2011 and 2014 after being infected by the same type of waterborne, brain-eating amoeba that recently hospitalized a patient in Missouri .

But officials say such infections are extremely rare, considering the millions of people who go swimming each year.

The type of amoeba involved, Naegleria fowleri, strikes fewer than 10 people annually in the U.S., said the website of the Centers for Disease Control and

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