Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled free-living ameba that can cause a rare deadly infection of the brain called ...

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

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has confirmed the death of a Missouri man who contracted the “Brain-Eating” infection. The following is the press release issued ...

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 ...

A Missourian who contracted an amoeba that kills brain cells at the Lake of the Ozarks has died, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Wednesday. The Department of Mental Health ...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) announced Wednesday that a patient who was diagnosed with a rare ...

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

: On Wednesday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed that the patient being treated for PAM died ...

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

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that the patient died on August 19 at a hospital in St. Louis.

The microscopic, single-celled organism is commonly found in warm, fresh water such as lakes, rivers, and ponds, and thrives ...

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