It is a brain-eating amoeba that is exceedingly rare but nearly impossible to treat. Naegleria fowleri are amoeba that live in warm freshwater. It enters the body when contaminated water gets in ...

5-year-old girl in Kerala dies of infection caused by brain-eating amoeba after dip in a pond The girl had taken bath in a nearby pond on May 1 and by May 10 showed symptoms of fever, headache and ...

The first cold plunge of 2025 coming to Houston. HOUSTON – The family of a Lake Jackson boy killed by a brain-eating amoeba in the water supply has filed a lawsuit. The city of Lake Jackson and ...

A Florida man has died from a brain-eating amoeba, state health officials have confirmed. The naegleria fowleri infection is thought to have been caused by the man rinsing his sinuses with tap ...

South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency said that the first case of the disease which affects the brain had been detected ... by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, cannot be transmitted ...

have been warned about using tap water after a deadly brain-eating microbe was found in the city's public water supply. Tests confirmed the presence of Naegleria fowleri in the system. The amoeba ...