Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing ...

The so called brain-eating amoeba, or Naegleria fowleri, killed a South Carolina boy early in July after swimming in a lake there. Here's what you need to know about this highly deadly pathogen that ...

Headlines talking about someone getting infected with a brain-eating amoeba catch our attention. Researchers are warning they ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The brain-eating amoeba enters the body when water is forced ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died ...