Collodictyon is not a virus, but it has gone viral. This obscure unicellular species, isolated from a lake in Norway, is fast becoming this year’s most talked about microbe. A cursory Google search of ...

A Georgia student died before her senior year of high school due to a rare brain-eating amoeba. Megan Ebenroth, 17, died on July 22 after contacting the amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri while ...