It is a rare problem; a so-called "brain-eating" amoeba that has claimed the lives of two children and one young man from the south, however it is not likely to happen in our area. The potential ...

Officials say he might have been exposed when visiting Lake Mead. The fatal amoebas can be found in bodies of fresh warm water and enter the brain through the nose. A teenager from Las Vegas died ...

(WJW) — A 71-year-old woman died after developing a rare and deadly brain infection linked to using tap water from an RV’s water system at a Texas campground, federal health officials confirmed.

Caleb Ziegelbauer, 13, has been hospitalized after contracting the life-threatening infection while swimming at Port Charlotte Beach, Florida A Florida teen is fighting for his life after being ...

A rare brain-eating amoeba infected and killed a child in Texas earlier this month. Arlington officials said that the boy had been hospitalized with primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) – a rare ...

There have only been ten cases of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) reported in California since 1971 Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as ...

“If we had more awareness, better support, more people working on this, then we could possibly come up with better diagnostics and better treatments in a reasonable amount of time, and avoid these ...

(NEXSTAR) – Officials in Missouri have recently recorded the state’s first confirmed infection of Naegleria fowleri — or “brain-eating amoeba” — in a resident since 1987. The patient was battling the ...

Climate change-induced warming means the amoeba can now be present in areas of the country where it didn’t used to be and has extended the amoeba’s life span past the summer months. The death of a ...

As Americans find ways to cope with an unusually sweltering summer, many of them have taken to bodies of water to cool off. But at least two people who ventured to freshwater swimming holes this ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK) – A child in Little Rock recently died from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba, bringing back memories for many of a case from 10 years ago when another Arkansas ...