Although not confirmed, preliminary information suggests the patient may have contracted the amoeba while water skiing at the ...

The amoeba is typically found in warm freshwater ... open image in gallery The Lake of the Ozarks is located in central ...

A Missouri resident died Tuesday after contracting a rare and deadly microscopic amoeba while skiing at the Lake of the ...

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and tissue death. Fewer than 200 people have contracted the amoeba since 1962, but ...

An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this month, officials have ...

A child in South Carolina also died from Naegleria fowleri , also known as a brain-eating amoeba. (CDC/Dr. James Roberts, ...

The man infected with a "brain-eating" amoeba died Tuesday in a St. Louis-area hospital. The Missouri health department said the man who died had been water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks in the ...

A person in Missouri has been hospitalized after contracting a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing in the Lake ...

A person is undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with a brain-eating amoeba infection in Missouri, officials announced.

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

The case of Naegleria fowleri — the scientific term for the amoeba — marks another confirmed U.S. infection this summer after ...

A Missouri resident has died from a rare brain infection after water skiing in the Lake of the Ozarks.