Two-year-old boy dies from brain-eating bug in Nevada after playing in hot springs water

A toddler has died after contracting a deadly brain-eating amoeba while swimming in Nevada.

The mother of Woodrow Bundy, Briana, announced the two-year-old’s death in a heartbreaking Facebook post on Tuesday.

She wrote: ‘Woodrow Turner Bundy returned victoriously to our father in heaven at 2:56 am. 

‘He is my hero and I will forever be grateful to God for giving me the goodest baby boy on earth, and I am grateful to know I will have that boy in heaven someday.’

It comes as a Florida teen became the fifth American to survive the brain-eating bug this month, which has a 97 percent death rate.

The mother of Woodrow Bundy, Briana, announced the two-year-old’s death in a heartbreaking Facebook post on Tuesday

Woodrow tragically passed away on July 19 from the infection, which is believed to have got into his system while he played in the water in Ash Springs.

Woodrow’s parents noticed something was not right when the boy began suffering ‘flu-like symptoms’ last week.

He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors first thought he had meningitis. They realized too late he actually had Naegleria fowleri, which is fatal in almost all cases.