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 ...

The Health department provided Miltefosine medicine (a broad-spectrum anti-microbial used to treat free-living amoeba infections), and he recovered after three weeks of treatment. Early detection ...

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