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

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

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

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

A Missouri man who became infected with a brain-eating amoeba has died less than one week after public health officials ...

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

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

Officials with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said the adult Missouri resident who was diagnosed with ...

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

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

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

The infection comes as Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old boy from South Carolina, died on July 18 after being exposed to Naegleria ...