Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing ...
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Brain-eating amoebas may be turning into a growing global killer threat
Brain infections caused by so‑called brain‑eating amoebas have long been treated as medical curiosities, terrifying but vanishingly rare. That framing is starting to look dangerously outdated. As the ...
Headlines talking about someone getting infected with a brain-eating amoeba catch our attention. Researchers are warning they ...
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Scientists sound alarm as deadly brain-eating amoebas race across globe
Deadly brain infections once associated with rare summer swims in southern lakes are now appearing in places that never ...
Scientists are warning that a little-known group of microbes called free-living amoebae may pose a growing global health threat. Found in soil and water, some species can survive extreme heat, ...
Researchers warn that free-living amoebas, microscopic organisms thriving in soil and water, are spreading globally due to ...
A Missourian has contracted a rare, often deadly brain infection from an amoeba, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, is often called a ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – At least one person in South Carolina recently contracted a rare case of a brain-eating amoeba that occurs naturally in freshwater, state health officials have confirmed. The ...
The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes ...
(WJW) – A Missouri resident remains in intensive care at the hospital after health officials said she was infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba. According to the Missouri Department of Health and ...
Entamoeba histolytica (green) attacking human T-cells. A new paper by UC Davis researchers lays out a strategy for investigating how this parasite can hide from the human immune system while attacking ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KHBS, KHOG) — Missouri health officials confirm the resident who contracted a case of what is commonly known as the “brain-eating” amoeba has died. That individual had been water ...
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