The unnamed individual is currently in intensive care in Missouri after contracting a rare and usually deadly brain infection ...

A man is in the ICU after swimming in the Lake of the Ozarks, and the CDC says this amoeba can be deadly in the first 18 days ...

"We have confirmed a rare brain infection in a Missourian caused by an ameba (also spelled amoeba) called Naegleria fowleri.

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

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

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

The average person shouldn't worry about brain-eating amoebas like the one recently diagnosed in the state, an MU infectious disease specialist said on Thursday.

As public health officials investigate the source of the exposure, it’s believed the patient went water skiing at the Lake of ...

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

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

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

An infectious disease expert at the University of Missouri Health Care said the symptoms are pretty much like meningitis.