As Americans find ways to cope with an unusually sweltering summer, many of them have taken to bodies of water to cool off. But at least two people who ventured to freshwater swimming holes this ...

New Delhi: Kerala has a new health alarm. First it was Nipah, now it is brain-eating amoeba. Two new deaths were reported this week in Malappuram and Kozhikode. The state has recorded the largest-ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Missourian has contracted a rare, often deadly brain infection from an amoeba, according to the Missouri Department of Health ...

Amid growing concern over seasonal infections and isolated cases reported in recent years, Kerala has stepped up vigilance over the rare but often fatal ‘brain-eating amoeba’ infection, issuing a ...

On hot summer days, hitting the beach is a great way to have fun and cool off. But if you're not near the salty ocean, you might opt for swimming in a freshwater stream, river, lake or pool. These ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — For years, scientists have known people who use neti pots can become infected with a brain-eating amoeba if they use the wrong kind of water. On Wednesday, researchers linked a ...

The scientific name for the microbe is Naegleria fowleri The mode of transmission of the amoeba is through infected water There is no treatment available for the disease currently South Korea has ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The brain-eating amoeba enters the body when water is forced up ...

Tuesday saw a spike in searches for ‘brain-eating amoeba’ and ‘Naegleria fowleri’ after South Korea disclosed its first case of the infection. After returning from a trip to Thailand, a 50-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — A 12-year-old boy has died in South Carolina after becoming infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba from swimming ...

NEW YORK — For years, scientists have known people who use neti pots can become infected with a brain-eating amoeba if they use the wrong kind of water. On Wednesday, researchers linked a second kind ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The brain-eating amoeba enters the body when water is forced ...