The patient contracted Naegleria fowleri while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, health officials said. Here's what we ...

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

Missouri health officials confirm the resident who contracted a case of what is commonly known as the "brain-eating" amoeba ...

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

open image in gallery The Lake of the Ozarks is located in central Missouri. Naegleria fowleri is often found in warm ...

A Missouri resident has died from a rare brain infection ... “Recreational water users should assume that Naegleria fowleri ...

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

Missouri health leaders have confirmed that the patient suffering from a laboratory-confirmed infection of a brain-eating ...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed the death of a patient after showing symptoms of a rare brain ...

The case of Naegleria fowleri — the scientific term for the amoeba — marks another confirmed U.S. infection this summer after ...

Naegleria fowleri is a one-celled organism that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explains is “often called the ...

Missouri health officials confirmed a rare Naegleria fowleri brain-eating amoeba infection in a patient who recently visited ...