MISSOURI (KFVS) - Health officials are warning everyone to use caution in light of a Missouri patient infected by a brain-eating amoeba. At last check, the patient is in the ICU. Doctors say the ...

Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - After a person lost their life contracting a brain infection from an amoeba in the Midlands, a Lowcountry doctor and father of another victim wants to educate people on the ...

His parents said they were unaware that it lived in Lake Murray, where Jaysen swam and engaged in other water activities over the Fourth of July weekend According to the Centers for Disease Control ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A Texas woman died days after she contracted a rare infection from a "brain-eating" amoeba. According to WJW, citing a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published by the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The brain-eating amoeba enters the body when water is forced ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Grieving parents of a 12-year-old who died after contracting Naegleria Fowleri, an amoeba in Lake Murray, spoke out for the first time. The family spoke in front of the media ...

There’s a sinister health threat we’re not taking seriously enough, a new paper argues – and it’s not a virus, bacterium, nor even a fungus. It’s the amoebae, free-living organisms that can survive ...

The family of a 12-year-old boy who died after contracting a rare and deadly brain-eating amoeba in a South Carolina lake has come forward with a public statement, expressing heartbreak and urging ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – The family of a 12-year-old boy ...