Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kansas children died in 2011 and 2014 after being infected by the same type of waterborne, brain-eating amoeba that recently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person is undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with a brain-eating amoeba infection in Missouri, officials announced. The ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. – 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 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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Following their 12-year-old son’s death from a rare brain-eating amoeba infection, a family is now fighting for legislation and increased awareness about this issue. The Carr ...

A Missouri adult is hospitalized with a rare brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, likely contracted while water skiing. Two Kansas children died from the same amoeba in 2011 and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died ...