A shocking new study shows that 90% of freshwater fish in Southern California may be carrying parasites that can infect ...

A boy has died after exposure to a rare brain-eating parasite at Lake Mead, the popular recreation area near Las Vegas, health officials say.

For this edition of the Scrub Hub, we are looking at how climate change is leading the brain-eating amoeba to expand its range into the Midwest.

A child has likely died from a rare brain-eating amoeba they possibly contracted while swimming in a Nebraska river, according to local health officials. “We can only imagine the devastation ...

Brain-eating amoeba is a free-living amoeba that can cause a rare but deadly infection and the risk increases in areas such ...

A brain-eating amoeba typically found in freshwater lakes and rivers may have killed a child in what would be Nebraska’s first known death from the parasite, health officials said.

A 2-year-old boy named Woodrow Bundy died from an infection of naegleria fowleri, a deadly brain-eating amoeba that he likely contracted swimming in Nevada.

Federal and state health officials on Wednesday confirmed the presence of a brain-eating amoeba in an Iowa lake after one swimmer was infected and later died. The lake will remain open as ...