Naegleria fowleri, commonly called the brain-eating amoeba, is a rare but serious threat in warm freshwater during hot months. The amoeba enters through the nose and travels to the brain, causing a ...

If the phrase “brain-eating amoeba” sounds like something out of a sci-fi horror movie, you’re not alone. In Arizona, it’s a very real concern that lurks in warm fresh water during the hottest months.

The co-owners of Amoeba Music, Dave Prinz and Marc Weinstein, are finishing up plans to build an eight-story apartment building atop the store's first location at 2455 Telegraph Ave in Berkeley.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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 warm ...

Kerala reported the fifth death due to amoebic meningoencephalitis in a month as a Malappuram native undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, died on Monday ...

For Kerala, a land blessed with rivers, streams and countless ponds, the Southwest Monsoon usually paints a picture of abundance. Freshwater bodies brim and the countryside turns lush green. But this ...

A 49-year-old man from Malappuram has become the sixth person to die from amoebic meningoencephalitis in Kerala within a month, as the state grapples with a concerning cluster of the rare and ...

Panic has gripped people in a southern Indian state after five people died of a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba in less than a month. A 56-year-old woman from Kerala's Malappuram ...

Far from being a random pathogen causing isolated cases of life-threatening brain infections, Acanthamoeba, the ubiquitous free-living amoeba found widely in the environment, is now emerging as a ...