Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing ...

Headlines talking about someone getting infected with a brain-eating amoeba catch our attention. Researchers are warning they ...

Brain infections caused by so‑called brain‑eating amoebas have long been treated as medical curiosities, terrifying but ...

One of the world’s most dangerous water-borne microorganisms, commonly called a “brain-eating amoeba”, has recently been detected in two drinking water supplies in south-west Queensland. Both affected ...

Imagine being told, by your water provider, to be careful how you use your water because it could kill you. That's been happening in parts of Louisiana after state regulators found a deadly amoeba ...

A Missouri resident has died from a rare brain infection after water skiing in the Lake of the Ozarks. Typically, fewer than 10 cases of the infection are reported in the U.S. each year, the state ...

Researchers warn that free-living amoebas, microscopic organisms thriving in soil and water, are spreading globally due to ...

LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) – A man in Missouri contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba, and officials believe he likely got it while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks. The Missouri ...

A 71-year-old woman died from a brain-eating amoeba infection after cleaning her sinuses with unboiled tap water from an RV at a campground in Texas. The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, is rare but often ...