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

The individual likely contracted the amoeba while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, according to the Missouri ...

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

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.

Missouri health officials confirm the resident who contracted a case of what is commonly known as the "brain-eating" amoeba ...

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

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

The deadly infection has been historically rare, but as climate change heats up waters and worsens flooding, research shows ...

An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this month, officials have ...

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 ...