An independent study conducted on the water in a part of Terrebonne Parish has reportedly tested positive for the brain eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.
The same brain eating amoeba that was found in St. Bernard and DeSoto Parishes last year was found in the drinking water of St. John the Baptist Parish.
The state Department of Health and Hospitals has confirmed the presence of a rare brain-eating amoeba at four sites in the St. Bernard Parish water supply.