Headlines talking about someone getting infected with a brain-eating amoeba catch our attention. Researchers are warning they ...
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 That framing is starting to look dangerously outdated.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 ...
OUACHITA PARISH, Louisiana -- Brain-eating amoebas have been detected in two water systems in Louisiana, the state's health department said Thursday. Health officials reassured residents that drinking ...
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 ...
(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 ...
On the eve of Onam, the most joyous festival in India's Kerala state, 45-year-old Sobhana lay shivering in the back of an ambulance, drifting into unconsciousness as her family rushed her to a medical ...
2021. A man in his fifties is admitted to hospital in San Francisco, California, after experiencing a seizure. He is disoriented, appears distracted and has difficulties with his speech. An MRI scan ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A child died from a rare ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Following their 12-year-old son’s death from a rare brain-eating amoeba infection, a family is now fighting for legislation and increased awareness about this issue. The Carr ...
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 ...
OUACHITA PARISH, Louisiana -- Brain-eating amoebas have been detected in two water systems in Louisiana, the state's health department said. Health officials reassured residents that drinking tap ...