Earlier this month, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported that the patient was being treated.

A Missouri man’s lake outing has ended in tragedy. Local health officials announced this week that a resident died from a ...

That individual had been water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks before falling ill ... the adult Missouri resident who was ...

Missouri resident dies from brain-eating amoeba after water skiing in Lake of the Ozarks - There are typically fewer than 10 ...

preliminary information indicates they were water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks shortly before falling ill, according to ...

Although not confirmed, preliminary information suggests the patient may have contracted the amoeba while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks.

An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this month, officials have ...

Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled free-living ameba that can cause a rare deadly infection of the brain called ...

Kansans have twice been killed by the type of brain-eating amoeba that recently infected a patient in Missouri, but officials say such cases are rare.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has confirmed the death of a Missouri man who contracted the “Brain-Eating” infection. The following is the press release issued ...

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and tissue death. Fewer than 200 people have contracted the amoeba since 1962, but ...