“Recreational water users should assume that Naegleria fowleri is present in warm freshwater across the United States; ...

S T. LOUIS, Mo. ( KTVI) — An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this ...

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and tissue death. Fewer than 200 people have contracted the amoeba since 1962, but ...

The patient contracted Naegleria fowleri while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, health officials said. Here's what we ...

Missouri health leaders have confirmed that the patient suffering from a laboratory-confirmed infection of a brain-eating ...

Kansans have twice been killed by the type of brain-eating amoeba that recently infected a patient in Missouri, but officials ...

Naegleria fowleri is a one-celled organism that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explains is “often called the ...

A Missouri adult who was diagnosed with a “brain eating” infection has died. It's an infection known as primary amebic ...

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

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

A Missouri resident has died from a rare brain infection after water skiing in the Lake of the Ozarks.

The Missouri resident who was diagnosed with a rare “brain-eating” infection last week has died, according to officials. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services made the announcement ...