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 ...

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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 ...

A 36-year-old Karachi woman, Maryam Shakeel, died after contracting Naegleria, a brain-eating amoeba found in water. Health officials confirmed that low chlorine levels in the city's water supply ...