I study parasites and have a particular interest in those that target the brain, which is why this amoeba captured my interest. How N. fowleri gets into the brain N. fowleri dwells in warm bodies ...

Levels of the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri, which killed an Ohio teen, were unusually high in water samples taken from the U.S. National Whitewater Center and were probably caused by the ...

Amoebas are single-celled organisms. The so-called brain-eating amoeba is a species discovered in 1965. Its formal name is Naegleria fowleri. It usually lurks in warm freshwater bodies or ...

In the U.S., there have been at least three reported deaths this year from the infection, which occurs when the amoeba enters the nose during submersion in fresh water, usually while swimming.

Family%27s daughter exposed to brain-eating amoeba swimming in a Minnesota lake Experts say the range of the amoeba has been spreading Mother tells her story%2C advises others to use nose plugs ...

The risk of getting a “brain-eating amoeba” or Naegleria fowleri from swimming is incredibly rare, with only 29 infections in the United States since 2013. But the freshwater amoeba is known ...

But at least two people who ventured to freshwater swimming holes this summer have died after contracting an amoeba that devours brain tissue. A man died after he was infected by the amoeba ...

A 2-year-old boy named Woodrow Bundy tragically died after contracting a deadly brain-eating amoeba while swimming in Nevada. The boy’s mother, Briana, broke the heartrending news in a Facebook ...

A person in Charlotte County, Florida, has died after being infected with the rare brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri. The infection possibly resulted from “sinus rinse practices utilizing ...

Reported cases of Naegleria fowleri infection — more commonly known as an infection of brain-eating amoeba — have “significantly increased” over the past four to five years. Experts think ...