(WJW) — A 71-year-old woman died after developing a rare and deadly brain infection linked to using tap water from an RV’s water system at a Texas campground, federal health officials confirmed.

Composed of a single cell, amoeba seem harmless enough: They look like playful critters waltzing under the spotlight of a microscope until they come upon a group of bacteria. Then, these previously ...

KOZHIKODE: The health department has issued additional cautionary instructions post the death of a girl due to amoebic meningoencephalitis in Thamarassery. Nine-year-old Anaya Sanoop died of primary ...

A sharp rise in rare and fatal brain infections—from Kerala’s Naegleria fowleri cases to Japanese encephalitis across 11 ...

In India's Kerala, the local health department has sounded an alert in the Kozhikode district after a nine-year-old girl died of a rare brain-eating amoeba. As per reports, the region in recent days ...

If the phrase “brain-eating amoeba” sounds like something out of a sci-fi horror movie, you’re not alone. In Arizona, it’s a very real concern that lurks in warm fresh water during the hottest months.

Panic has gripped people in a southern Indian state after five people died of a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba in less than a month. A 56-year-old woman from Kerala's Malappuram ...

A 7-year-old boy in Tehama County, Calif., died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, a rare brain-eating amoeba, CBS News reports. Local health officials believe the child became infected ...

A Missouri man who became infected with a brain-eating amoeba has died less than one week after public health officials announced that he had been infected The man had been waterskiing on the Lake of ...

CHARLOTTE -- Mecklenburg County and North Carolina state health officials told WSOC Wednesday morning that they were investigating the death of an Ohio teen who may have contracted a deadly amoebic ...

Amoebic infections of the central nervous system (CNS) represent a formidable challenge in clinical medicine due to their rapid progression and high fatality rates. Among the free‐living amoebae ...