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

The man had been waterskiing on the Lake of the Ozarks in the days before contracting the infection, known as primary amebic ...

A Missouri man died Tuesday after contracting a rare and deadly microscopic amoeba while skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks.

S T. LOUIS, Mo. ( KTVI) — An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this ...

The man infected with a "brain-eating" amoeba died Tuesday in a St. Louis-area hospital. The Missouri health department said ...

The infection comes as Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old boy from South Carolina, died on July 18 after being exposed to Naegleria ...

The patient contracted Naegleria fowleri while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, health officials said. Here's what we ...

A person in Missouri has been hospitalized after contracting a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing in the Lake ...

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

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 ...

French police are investigating the death of a popular streamer, who died during a nearly 12-day live stream after apparently ...

A Missouri resident has died from a rare brain infection after water skiing in the Lake of the Ozarks.