"We have confirmed a rare brain infection in a Missourian caused by an ameba (also spelled amoeba) called Naegleria fowleri.

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

Missouri health officials are investigating how the person was exposed, but they may have been in the water at Lake of the ...

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

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

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 Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MODHSS) said in a ...

The rare infection occurs when the ameba, naegleria fowleri, — which is found in fresh water — travels from the nose into the ...

The recent infection at Lake of the Ozarks is just the third the state has seen since data tracking began in the 1960s.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) announced a case of an adult Missouri resident with a laboratory ...

An adult Missouri resident has been hospitalized after contracting an extremely rare “brain-eating” infection.

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