A Missouri resident has contracted a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks days prior.

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

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 ...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed a rare case of brain infection linked to Lake of the Ozarks.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services claims someone who contracted a rare brain infection may have been ...

Missouri health officials confirmed a rare Naegleria fowleri brain-eating amoeba infection in a patient who recently visited the Lake of the Ozarks. The patient is hospitalized in intensive care.

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

Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled free-living ameba that can cause a rare deadly infection of the brain called ...

Individuals become infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose from freshwater sources.

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

The Missouri Department of Health has begun an investigation into the brain-eating ameba after a person showed symptoms after ...