Naegleria Fowleri, an extremely lethal and rare brain-eating infection causing amoeba, has been identified in South Korea. This amoeba is known to be found in warm freshwater and soil. Getting in ...

Notably, one species, Naegleria fowleri, thrives in warm waters above 30°C and causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare but almost invariably fatal brain infection.

A 36-year-old woman from Gulshan-e-Iqbal has died from Naegleria fowleri, marking Karachi's first fatal case of the brain-eating amoeba this year, health officials confirmed on Monday. According ...

The Florida Department of Health urged the public to only use sterile water or saline when doing a nasal rinse A Florida man has died from Naegleria fowleri, or brain-eating amoeba, after rinsing ...

While extremely rare, Naegleria fowleri — or brain-eating amoeba — can cause an almost always fatal infection, according to the CDC A 2-year-old boy has died one week after battling Naegleria ...

Florida Department of Health tweeted, “Infection with Naegleria Fowleri is EXTREMELY RARE and can only happen when water contaminated with amoebae enters the body through the nose. You CANNOT ...