Missouri health officials are investigating how the person was exposed, but they may have been in the water at Lake of the ...

"We have confirmed a rare brain infection in a Missourian caused by an ameba (also spelled amoeba) called Naegleria fowleri.

A person in Missouri has been hospitalized after contracting a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing in the Lake ...

A person has been hospitalized after contracting a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba from swimming in a popular ...

A brain-eating amoeba case in Missouri highlights the risks of warm freshwater activities, as health officials recommend ...

The unnamed individual is currently in intensive care in Missouri after contracting a rare and usually deadly brain infection ...

John Mew, who has died aged 96, was a maverick orthodontist who in the 1980s pioneered a discipline he called “orthotropics”, ...

The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. The Missouri health ...

A man is in the ICU after swimming in the Lake of the Ozarks, and the CDC says this amoeba can be deadly in the first 18 days ...

A person is undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with a brain-eating amoeba infection in Missouri, officials announced. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MODHSS) said in a ...

Individuals become infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose from freshwater sources.

The case of Naegleria fowleri — the scientific term for the amoeba — marks another confirmed U.S. infection this summer after ...