The fatal brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri claimed the life of a Texas woman who used contaminated water in her nasal rinse, as the CDC highlights potential risks.

A Texas woman died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after using tap water in a sinus rinse, a CDC report says. Here's what to know about the often fatal infection.

Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba, poses a rare but deadly threat in warm, untreated freshwater during summer.

Brain-eating-amoeba infections are extremely rare, but when they do strike, they are almost always deadly, killing around 97% ...

Star student Megan Ebenroth, 17, tragically passed away last month after contracting a rare, brain-eating amoeba while swimming in Georgia.

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

A 2-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba infection this week, according to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health and a Facebook post from the child’s mother.

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.

A suspected case of the rare-brain eating amoeba has been discovered in Nebraska. Here's everything you need to know about the single-celled living organism found in warm freshwater.

A boy has died of a brain-eating amoeba infection after swimming in Lake Mead this month, authorities in Nevada said. The patient, identified only as a male under the age of 18, is believed to ...

An infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba killed a child who swam in a Nebraska river over the weekend, health officials said Friday.

A boy has died after being infected by a rare brain-eating amoeba, which officials believe he may have been exposed to at Lake Mead, the Southern Nevada Health District announced Wednesday.