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5-year-old girl in Kerala dies of infection caused by brain-eating amoeba after dip in a pond The girl had taken bath in a nearby pond on May 1 and by May 10 showed symptoms of fever, headache and ...

A toddler from Arkansas died of an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba lurking in a water park. The young boy was 16 months old when he visited a water playground with fountains and jets in ...

In June 2016, 18-year-old Lauren Seitz tragically died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba during a visit to a popular North Carolina water park. Exactly one year after her death, the teen’s ...

While extremely rare, Naegleria fowleri — or brain-eating amoeba — can cause an almost always fatal infection, according to the CDC A 2-year-old boy has died one week after battling Naegleria ...

Some cell-shocking facts about these microscopic organisms — they may lack bones, bravado, or branding, but they are among ...

Why? Well, it's all because a single-celled life form has travelled up their nose, destroyed nerve tissue, worked its way up into the brain and killed them. Is it true that such an amoeba exists ...

Naegleria Fowleri, an extremely lethal and rare brain-eating infection causing amoeba, has been identified in South Korea. This amoeba is known to be found in warm freshwater and soil. Getting in ...