An 8-year-old Louisiana girl recently died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming. Now, families are left wondering whether this could happen to their loved ones. Lillian Smart of Ruston died Aug.

Climate change has brought on many environmental complications, including the increasing presence of a brain-eating amoeba in freshwater lakes and hot springs.

An 8-year-old girl in Louisiana has died after being infected by an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba that is found in warm freshwater, her family says. Lillian Smart died over the weekend after ...

More than 120,000 people are expected to travel by air through Raleigh-Durham International Airport this holiday weekend. Millions more Americans will be hitting the roads this weekend, with many ...

(Gray News) - A teenager from central North Carolina is critically ill from an infection caused by a “brain-eating amoeba,” according to the state’s health officials. North Carolina Health and Human ...

N.C. Department of Health and Human service believes it found the source of a brain-eating amoeba that killed teen ...

Naegleria fowleri is making headlines after recent infections linked to warm freshwater exposure. The rare amoeba can cause a severe brain infection that is usually fatal. At least two U.S. cases of ...

RUSTON, La. -- An 8-year-old girl in Louisiana has died after being infected by an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba that is found in warm freshwater, her family says. Lillian Smart died over the ...