The person is fighting the infection at an intensive care unit in Missouri, officials said.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many North Carolina residents have heard stories of "brain-eating amoebas" lurking in bodies of water. Is there any truth to these ...

A Missouri adult is hospitalized with a rare brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, likely contracted while water skiing. Two Kansas children died from the same amoeba in 2011 and ...

A person who officials believe was infected with a brain-eating amoeba from a South Carolina lake has died.

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The Georgia resident likely picked up the brain infection by swimming in warm freshwater, health officials said. Sime Basioli via Unsplash A person has died after contracting a rare amoeba brain ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Richland Children’s Hospital in Columbia has confirmed that a patient treated at their facility has died from a brain-eating amoeba. According to the South Carolina Department ...