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

A person is undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with a brain-eating amoeba infection in Missouri, officials announced.

A Missouri resident has contracted a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks days prior.

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

The deadly infection has been historically rare, but as climate change heats up waters and worsens flooding, research shows ...

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 ...

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

A Missouri resident has been hospitalized with a deadly brain-eating infection after possibly waterskiing in a local lake. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said that the patient ...

Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and ...

What to know about the brain-eating amoeba that killed a boy swimming in a lake Fewer than 10 cases are reported annually in the U.S., but almost all are deadly.

A 12-year-old boy died last week in South Carolina from a rare brain-eating amoeba he contracted after swimming in a local reservoir, a lawyer for the boy’s family said in a statement on Thursday.