Brain-eating amoeba kills Missouri water-skier as health officials urge precautions when swimming in warm, fresh bodies of ...

Man dies from brain-eating amoeba after water skiing in Lake of the Ozarks - There are fewer than 10 cases of the ...

The Missouri patient who contracted an infection from a brain-eating amoeba died on Tuesday, local authorities confirmed.

A Missouri man’s lake outing has ended in tragedy. Local health officials announced this week that a resident died from a ...

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and ...

The man had been waterskiing on the Lake of the Ozarks in the days before contracting the infection, known as primary amebic ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. ( KTVI) — An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this ...

The man infected with a "brain-eating" amoeba died Tuesday in a St. Louis-area hospital. The Missouri health department said ...

A Missouri resident has died from a rare brain infection after water skiing in the Lake of the Ozarks. Fewer than 10 cases of ...

A Missouri man died Tuesday after contracting a rare and deadly microscopic amoeba while skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Missouri health officials are investigating how the person was exposed, but they may have been in the water at Lake of the ...

The case of Naegleria fowleri — the scientific term for the amoeba — marks another confirmed U.S. infection this summer after ...