The 71-year-old Texas woman was previously healthy before getting an infection from a brain-eating amoeba, a CDC case report said.

The woman used tap water from an RV to rinse her sinuses, leading to a rare and often fatal brain infection caused by ...

The CDC said a 71-year-old woman in Texas died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba infection from using tap water to ...

The fungus lands on susceptible parts of the host plant to germinate. Its hosts include wheat, barley, maize, and rice.

Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba that is found in freshwater sources such as rivers throughout the world, according to the ...

More than 90 percent of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contain a parasite that is capable of inducing strokes or heart attacks in the humans who eat them. At such a critical ...

The Texas Department of State Health Services said tap water in the area is still safe to drink as the amoeba is rare and can ...

Amoebas don’t usually make headlines. But Entamoeba histolytica, a single-celled killer with a taste for human cells, may ...

Rief, and I’m an associate professor at Auburn University in the Department of Pathobiology. I love anything and everything that has to do with parasites, and my favorite parasite to study is ...

† † Area of Parasitology and § Area of Biomedicine and Public Health (Biostatistics), Department of Microbiology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zaragoza, ...

Federal and state officials, and farmers and ranchers across the country, have been increasingly concerned about the possible presence of a flesh-eating parasite called the New World screwworm.