Naegleria fowleri, the so-called brain eating amoeba, has been blamed for three deaths so far this year in the United States. Now, health officials in Louisiana are keeping a close eye on two water ...

Amoebic meningoencephalitis caused more deaths than flu (influenza) and rabies in the state in 2025. The health department ...

A microscopic creature from a boiling hot spring in Northern California has just reset the upper limit for how hot complex ...

A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of an atmosphere.

A Seattle woman died after becoming infected with a brain-eating amoeba. The woman told her doctor she had used tap water in a Neti pot, instead of saline or sterile water, CBS affiliate KIRO reports.

The family of an Ohio teen that died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba during a Whitewater rafting trip last June recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a North Carolina recreation ...

The brain-eating amoeba that sickened a Missouri resident who'd recently visited Iowa has been found in Northern states more often in recent years as air and water temperatures rise, according to the ...

Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.

Rare infection suspected after child becomes critically ill. — -- Officials are investigating if a parasitic amoeba made a child critically ill after swimming in a Minnesota lake this summer. The ...

A Kansas girl is the latest victim of the deadly infection. — -- Kansas health officials are urging swimmers to take extra care in warm freshwater, which could be home to millions of microscopic ...

A family member identified the brain-eating amoeba victim as 11-year-old Hannah Collins. An aunt set up a GoFundMe page to help her mother pay for medical bills while she’s being treated at the ...

The John Ferraro Council Chamber at Los Angeles City Hall is hardly the most artistically expressive of places, but on Tuesday, the room played host to an event that will have real world consequences ...