A brain eating amoeba killed another young child recently and the source of the infection wasn’t a lake or a body of water it was in a Louisiana water supply.

The Mississippi boy’s family is reeling following his death.

The four-year-old went to visit his cousin in St. Bernard Parish, Lousiana.

While playing on a Slip ‘n’ Slide the boy became infected with a brain eating amoeba.

“I thought he was going to pull through but day by day it kept getting worse and worse,” said Drake Smith Senior, the boy’s father.

That boy is at least the second child to die this summer from the Amoeba.

This time though, the parasite was discovered in St. Bernard Parish’s water supply.

The water is safe to drink, but it can be deadly if it goes up the nose.

“It causes a brain infection,” said Dr. Juan Dumois, All Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Juan Dumois at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg said the amoeba is rare but the infection is typically fatal.

“Amoeba can be hard to treat in the brain both because our drugs for treating amoeba may not be as good as our drugs for treating bacteria,” said Dr. Juan Dumois, All Children’s Hospital.

That’s why local water supplies have to be treated with high levels of chlorine to kill the parasite.

The amoeba is normally found in fresh water lakes and rivers, but it can show up in drinking water when the chlorine levels are low.

The Centers for Disease Control said that’s what happened in Louisiana.

Only two Americans have ever survived the brain eating amoeba.

St. Petersburg and Tampa told Bay News 9 both cities take the necessary steps and precautions to keep amoebas out of the water supply.