Nearly 100 percent of people infected with "brain-eating" amoebas die. In an effort to cure the deadly infections, doctors are trying out new techniques and treatments with the hope of preventing ...

It is so small it cannot be seen with the naked eye. The killer that lives in the hot, fresh water is a single cell amoeba that once exposed to the human brain through the nasal passages is almost ...

A Georgia student died before her senior year of high school due to a rare brain-eating amoeba. Megan Ebenroth, 17, died on July 22 after contacting the amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri while ...