The infection comes as Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old boy from South Carolina, died on July 18 after being exposed to Naegleria ...

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

Naegleria fowleri is a one-celled organism that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explains is “often called the ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Across Missouri, reports of waterborne bacteria and related illnesses have been on the ...

A Missouri resident has been hospitalized with what health officials described as a deadly "brain-eating infection" after ...

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

With news breaking this week about a case of a Missouri man suffering from a brain-eating infection connected to a possible ...

LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. (KSNW) — A 2-year-old girl is dead after a drowning at the Lake of the Ozarks.

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 ...

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

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