While extremely rare, Naegleria fowleri can lead to death — but there are precautions people can take to avoid contracting the amoeba Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE ...

Brain-eating-amoeba infections are extremely rare ... William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee, told Live Science.

“The research papers published by School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata ... factors that contribute to increase in the density of amoeba in water bodies. The study will be conducted by Kerala ...

Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as brain-eating amoeba, is a single-celled living organism that can cause a rare and almost always fatal infection of the brain called primary amebic ...