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 ...

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

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

A brain-eating amoeba case in Missouri highlights the risks of warm freshwater activities, as health officials recommend ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The recent infection at Lake of the Ozarks is just the third the state has seen since data tracking began in the 1960s.

A health expert claims there is no “documented guideline” for treating a rare brain infection that the Department of Health ...

The last Missouri resident to die from the brain-eating infection was in July of 2022, after swimming in Lake of Three Fires ...