A person is undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with a brain-eating amoeba infection in Missouri, officials announced. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MODHSS) said in a ...

A person in Missouri has been hospitalized after contracting a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing in the Lake ...

Health officials in Missouri say a resident has contracted a lab-confirmed case of what is commonly known as "brain-eating" ...

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

A man in Missouri contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba, and officials believe he likely got it while water skiing at the ...

Missouri health officials are investigating how the person was exposed, but they may have been in the water at Lake of the ...

The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. The Missouri health ...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) announced a case of an adult Missouri resident with a laboratory ...

A Missouri resident has been diagnosed with a laboratory-confirmed infection of Naegleria fowleri, the Missouri Department of ...

An adult Missouri resident is hospitalized in intensive care with a rare and often deadly brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, state health officials said.

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

ST. LOUIS — A man is battling for his life at a St. Louis-area hospital after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba ...