A 9-year-old Kansas girl who loved water sports has died after contracting an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba.

FoxNews reports Hally Yust died Wednesday after contracting Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba found in fresh water sources such as lakes, rivers and hot springs. Hally was hospitalized after complaining of meningitis-like symptoms.

A county health official said Hally had been in several bodies of water that could have exposed her to the infection, so it is impossible to determine where the girl contracted it. The amoeba is extremely rare, with less than 200 cases in the U.S. being reported in the past five decades.

The amoeba goes up through the nose and into the brain and once it’s there, there’s really nothing anybody can do. There’s only been one case that actually lived through this. All the other cases have passed away,” Johnson County Health Department investigator Tiffany Geiger said.