Naegleria fowleri is a rare and lethal infection caused by brain-eating amoeba (aka PAM) that thrives in warm freshwater ...

It is a brain-eating amoeba that is exceedingly rare but nearly impossible to treat. Naegleria fowleri are amoeba that live in warm freshwater. It enters the body when contaminated water gets in ...

The young boy died due to an infection by a brain eating amoeba. He was under treatment for amoebic meningoencephalitis, a ...

When it’s not eating your brain. There’s a strange irony to the fact that a close relative of the brain-devouring amoeba species, Naegleria fowleri, could be the source of a greater understanding of ...