For years, scientists have known that people who use neti pots can become infected with a brain-eating amoeba if they use the wrong kind of water. On Wednesday, researchers linked a second kind of ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – The family of a 12-year-old boy who died in South Carolina this month have confirmed his cause of death to be an infection associated with Naegleria fowleri, more commonly referred to as a ...

A 14-year-old boy in India died Thursday from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba he contracted while swimming in contaminated water. The teen, named Midrul, had reportedly picked up the ...

The boy's family have hired a law firm to conduct an independent investigation into their son's death.

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 up the nose, like ...

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The parents of Jaysen Carr, who died July 18 from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake, say warnings should be put in place Joshua Boucher/The State/Tribune News Service via ...

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 ...

A person has died after being infected with a brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina, officials announced. A patient at Prisma Health Children's Hospital Midlands in South Carolina died after being ...

The Health Ministry announced Wednesday evening that Gai Beach on the Kinneret would be closed after two people contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba infection after swimming at the beach. Earlier ...