The study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the BSR park where the novel wave pool in Waco, Texas is located, found traces of the "brain-eating amoeba" Naegleria fowleri, The reports published by the institution indicate.

They also report that it was found "in large volumes" in sediments and in the water of the reservoir and in the wakeboard park, but not in the wave pool.

It is presumed that it was here where Fabrizio Stabile contracted the amoeba that caused his death from amoebic meningoencephalitis two weeks after visiting the park.

The reports detail: “The high presence of fecal indicator organisms, high turbidity, low levels of chlorine and other amoebae that are generated together with Naegleria fowleri indicate favorable conditions for the growth of the aforementioned amoeba.”

On the park's Facebook they wrote a news that totally contrasts, or is nuanced with respect to the official report, saying that the results were good for the different facilities (the surf park, the floating lake and the water slide) ignoring what was previously established.

This led many specialized websites to report that the water in the Waco pool was free of the amoeba.

They announced, however, that they had hired a company to install a state-of-the-art filtration system, sent their condolences to the family, and shared the story that their families bathe in the park, which forces them to take the utmost care in treating the water.

The park will remain closed until February, when the installation is completed, they say.

However, the statement from the medical authorities indicates that the park will not be able to reopen until the authorities allow it to do so.

The Naegleria fowleri bacteria can be found in warm freshwater such as lakes, rivers and hot springs and is as rare as it is deadly. According to U.S. medical records, 150 people have died from the bacterium in North America in the past 50 years, and only four have survived.

A few days after the news, The Stab High was performed in the wave pool, an aerial tournament that had the best flyers in the world competing there and a day later DUKE published a diary of the young Panamanians Kai and Teo Gale and Agustín Cedeño training there.

So far, with the two-week window period for symptoms having long passed, there are no reports of illness among the surfers mentioned.