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

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

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Although not confirmed, preliminary information suggests the patient may have contracted the amoeba while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks.

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

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

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and tissue death. Fewer than 200 people have contracted the amoeba since 1962, but ...

A Missourian who contracted an amoeba that kills brain cells at the Lake of the Ozarks has died, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Wednesday. The Department of Mental Health ...

A patient who was infected earlier this summer with a rare brain-eating amoeba has died from the infection, Missouri health officials announced Wednesday.

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