The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. The Missouri health department says this is only the state's third case on record, but ...

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, often ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – A deadly case of brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina is bringing renewed national attention to a test developed right here in Central Florida. The patient, a young boy, died earlier ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina's most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm ...

A pediatric death from a "brain-eating amoeba" has been reported in South Carolina, according to health officials. Prisma Health Richland Hospital in Columbia publicly confirmed the death on July 22, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina's most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm ...

The so called brain-eating amoeba, or Naegleria fowleri, killed a South Carolina boy early in July after swimming in a lake there. Here's what you need to know about this highly deadly pathogen that ...

A Missouri resident has been infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba, possibly linked to water-skiing in the Lake of Ozarks. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) confirmed the ...

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 ...