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Purging water system of brain-eating microbe to take 60 days

by Associated Press
| September 29, 2020 12:06 AM

LAKE JACKSON, Texas (AP) — A Houston-area official said it will take 60 days to ensure a city drinking water system is purged of a deadly, microscopic parasite that doctors believed killed a boy and that led to warnings for others not to drink tap water.

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