Naegleria amoebas’ exploration skills and crawling behaviors could help explain how the brain-eating variety travel into ...

Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the "brain-eating amoeba," has been in the spotlight after recent infections. Here's ...

The teen splashed water on their face at the water feature, officials said.

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

A North Carolina teen who died from a brain-eating amoeba was likely infected through contact with a community center water feature, officials say.

Historical data reveals which states have reported the most brain-eating amoeba cases in the U.S. What's Maryland status?

There have been 10 cases of the brain-eating amoeba reported in California since 1935. Though this isn't nearly as high as ...

In water, soil and air all around us lives a free-living, single-celled organism called Acanthamoeba. Most of the time, ...

Brain-eating amoebas are real, say Yucatán tourism officials, but confirm that the average tourist in "vacation mode" has ...

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

A North Carolina teenager died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba found in lakes, rivers and other freshwater sources, according to authorities and reports. The boy, identified by family as ...

Lillian Smart, 8, has died after being infected by an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba that is found in warm freshwater, her family said.