This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – Two children have died this week ...

Free-living amoebas like Naegleria fowleri are emerging as a global health threat, with experts warning of deadly brain ...

A Florida teenager was recently hospitalized by what his family described as a rare infection from a "brain-eating amoeba," though a state health official said the agency has no confirmed cases of the ...

Kerala has reported more than 70 cases and 20 deaths due to Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis, or PAM – a rare but highly fatal brain infection – also known as the “brain-eating amoeba", authorities ...

(NEXSTAR) – Infections of brain-eating amoeba are on the rise — and the warming climate may only exacerbate the problem, according to one of the world’s preeminent experts on the subject. “Yes, we are ...

A child in Nebraska is suspected to have died from a rare case of brain-eating amoeba, health officials said Wednesday. If confirmed, it will be the first known death from Naegleria fowleri in the ...

UPDATE (10:00 A.M.) – Lily Mae Avant, the 10-year-old girl who contracted a brain-eating amoeba, died Monday morning, according to our sister station in Dallas NBC5. Lily contracted the amoeba by ...

A beach in Iowa has been closed after a swimmer was infected with a brain-eating amoeba. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, Lake of Three Fires will undergo testing to determine ...

A 10-year-old girl has died after her family says she contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a river near her home in Central Texas. Lily Avant, of Whitney, died nearly a week after ...