Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, rapidly destroys brain tissue.

Kerala is facing a rise in brain-eating amoeba infections, but increased detection efforts, including CSF analysis, explain the surge in reported case ...

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 ...

A hospital patient who was infected with brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri in South Carolina has died. Health officials at Prisma Health Children's Hospital confirmed July 22 that they had a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the ...

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 up the nose, like ...