CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A water boil has been issued for residents in Falfurrias after e-coli was detected in a home on the city's West Side.
The city states that the case is isolated to the home, and that samples taken from around the home were negative, but that the water boil comes at the instruction of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Samples taken around the city also have tested negative, the City said in a news release
The City is working to determine where the bacteria came from, and that a second sample has been taken from the home and is being tested.
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