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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Star student Megan Ebenroth, 17, tragically died last month after contracting a rare, brain-eating amoeba while swimming in Georgia. The death was reported last month, but the victim’s identity ...

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 ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. Deadly brain-eating amoeba infections are increasing across the U.S. North, and it might be due to climate change. Researchers ...

By Eduardo Medina An infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba killed a child who swam in a Nebraska river over the weekend, health officials said Friday. It was the first such death in the state ...

Naegleria fowleri is commonly known as the "brain-eating amoeba" — and it does indeed destroy brain tissue. But the amoeba mainly eats bacteria, not brains, and those organisms are plentiful in ...

A rare brain-eating amoeba infected a 14-year-old Indian boy in the Kozhikode district of the Indian state of Kerala and took his life. The free-living amoeba which infected the boy was found in ...

A Florida man who recently contracted a brain-eating amoeba had died, according to multiple reports. It’s rare to be infected by the amoeba, called Naegleria fowleri, but for those to do it is ...

As Americans find ways to cope with an unusually sweltering summer, many of them have taken to bodies of water to cool off. But at least two people who ventured to freshwater swimming holes this ...

A pathogen that causes acute, life-threatening brain infections is spreading around the world. Here's what we know about it so far—and where it might be headed next. The amoeba Naegleria fowleri ...