The amoeba cannot survive in salt water and cannot spread from one person to another. Unfortunately, the prognosis is not good for naegleria fowleri, which carries a 97% mortality rate. 4 ...

A man died after he was infected by the amoeba, whose scientific name is Naegleria fowleri, the Georgia Department of Public Health said Friday. Earlier this month, Nevada public health officials ...

Mourners gathered on Saturday for the funeral of a two-year-old boy who died from a rare, brain-eating amoeba infection believed to have been contracted at a local hot springs. Woodrow Turner ...

Livar said infections of brain-eating amoeba are very rare, with only 29 reported in the United States between 2013 and 2022. The last confirmed case in Mohave County was in 2007, when someone got ...