A Missouri resident diagnosed this month with an infection from a brain-eating amoeba after visiting a beach in Iowa has died, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services ...

Summer is when families are most at risk for brain-eating amoeba. Infections are rare, almost always deadly. How to go swimming but stay safe. advertisement. The Clarion-Ledger Jackson.

A Texas woman died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after using tap water in a sinus rinse, a CDC report says. Here's what to know about the often fatal infection.

Officials in Nevada are warning visitors of a brain-eating amoeba, with a near 100% infection fatality rate, present at Lake Mead. Lake Mead National Recreation Area said Naegleria fowleri ...

A child died from a brain-eating amoeba after a visit to a Nevada hot spring, state officials said Thursday. The child was identified as 2-year-old Woodrow Bundy, CBS affiliate KLAS reported.

A woman in Texas has died after contracting a fatal brain amoeba from contaminated water. The patient, 71, had used a nasal irrigation device filled with unboiled tap water from an RV’s water ...

Research also has indicated the amoeba is common in tap water. A study done in Ohio in the 1990s found more than half of tap water samples studied contained the amoeba and similar microorganisms.

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A 2-year-old boy named Woodrow Bundy tragically died after contracting a deadly brain-eating amoeba while swimming in Nevada. The boy’s mother, Briana, broke the heartrending news in a Facebook ...