While health officials announced that they presume the amoeba in the fatal case of Naegleria fowleri, or brain-eating amoeba, to have come from Lake Murray, the lake does not have a higher risk of ...

A Missouri resident is in intensive care after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba, likely while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, state health officials confirmed Wednesday. The case of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - WIS sat down with an expert to learn more about a brain-eating amoeba that was recently discovered in South Carolina. Dr. Melissa Nolan with the University of South Carolina’s ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that a 71-year-old Texas woman died in 2024 after contracting a brain-eating amoeba from using tap water in her ...

A Columbia area hospital is confirming a death of a patient from a brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina. On Wednesday, Prisma Health Richland Children's Hospital in Columbia said a patient treated at ...