It's nearly always fatal, and it's showing up farther north than ever. Here's what to know before you swim this summer.

The city has reported its first confirmed death from the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, this year, after a ...

Year’s first death due to deadly infection raises concern over piped water quality; people urged to put chlorine tablets in ...

Cases are very, very rare, but are almost always deadly.

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 latest fatality caused by Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the "brain-eating amoeba", is a 44-year-old resident of ...

A Missouri resident died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba at the Lake of the Ozarks, state health officials announced this week. The patient, identified only as an adult from ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – A deadly case of brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina is bringing renewed national attention to a test developed right here in Central Florida. The patient, a young boy, died earlier ...

A brain-eating amoeba is spreading across US national parks — here’s what you need to know - Infections can lead to coma and death in just five days ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...