For years, scientists have known people who use neti pots can become infected with a brain-eating amoeba if they use the wrong kind of water. On Wednesday, researchers linked a second kind of ...

How to stay safe from the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri, the so-called brain eating amoeba, has been blamed for three deaths so far this year in the United States. Now, health officials in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS /Gray News) - A patient in the hospital died from a brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina, according to health officials. On Tuesday, Prisma Health Children’s Hospital ...

On September 16, the brain-eating amoeba struck again, killing a 10-year-old girl after she swam in the Brazos River and Lake Whitney near Waco, Texas.

Not especially, as contracting a brain-eating amoeba is exceedingly rare, according to data from the CDC, although it does note that “the amoeba may be present in any freshwater body in the ...

The amoeba can show up in hot springs, rivers and, on rare occasions, in tap water. That's why doctors recommend using sterile water for cleaning nasal passages with a neti pot.

Naegleria fowleri, also known as a brain-eating amoeba, lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the human body, causing an infection known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis. Claudine Hellmuth ...

Warm Weather Stirs Up Brain-Eating Amoeba Warning Hally Yust, 9, is the latest victim of a rare brain infection that lives in warm, standing water.

A 12-year-old Arkansas girl infected with a brain-eating amoeba is on the mend and may be only the third person known to have survived the baffling infection, doctors said Wednesday. She’s ...

Star student Megan Ebenroth, 17, tragically died last month after contracting a rare, brain-eating amoeba while swimming in Georgia. The death was reported last month, but the victim’s identity ...

What exactly is brain-eating amoeba? Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as brain-eating amoeba, is a single-celled living organism that can cause a rare and almost always fatal infection of ...

A 29-year-old man died from what is commonly referred to as a "brain-eating amoeba" after visiting a surf resort in Central Texas. Fabrizio Stabile, a surfer from New Jersey, died on Sept. 21 ...