A young boy who contracted an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a Northern California lake has died. He was 7. Late last month, David Pruitt of Tehama County was brought to the ...

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 ...

I had been swimming all summer long at this same location. That day ... Survives After Catching Deadly Brain-Eating Amoeba After that, my dad had arrived at the hospital and they were telling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Naegleria Fowleri, an extremely lethal and rare brain-eating infection causing amoeba, has been identified in South Korea. This amoeba is known to be found in warm freshwater and soil. Getting in ...

After being sick for several days after the visit, the toddler succumbed to a rare infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, also known as The Brain-Eating Amoeba. But what is this amoeba and why is ...

Regional health officials say a Las Vegas-area boy died from a rare brain-eating amoeba that investigators think he was exposed to in warm waters at Lake Mead. [AP Photo] The death of a Las Vegas ...