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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 person who officials believe was infected with a brain-eating amoeba from a South Carolina lake has died.

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.

Officials previously announced that a person died from a brain-eating amoeba but could not verify where they were exposed to it.

A South Carolina hospital patient died from Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, likely contracted at Lake Murray. Infection occurs when the amoeba enters the nose and travels to the brain ...