ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KTVI) — An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this ...

A Missouri resident has contracted a rare and often fatal brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, commonly ...

A Missourian who contracted an amoeba that kills brain cells at the Lake of the Ozarks has died, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Wednesday. The Department of Mental Health ...

The patient contracted Naegleria fowleri while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, health officials said. Here's what we ...

Kansans have twice been killed by the type of brain-eating amoeba that recently infected a patient in Missouri, but officials ...

The man infected with a "brain-eating" amoeba died Tuesday in a St. Louis-area hospital. The Missouri health department said the man who died had been water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks in the ...

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and tissue death. Fewer than 200 people have contracted the amoeba since 1962, but ...

The Missouri resident who was diagnosed with a rare “brain-eating” infection last week has died, according to officials. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services made the announcement ...

A patient who was infected earlier this summer with a rare brain-eating amoeba has died from the infection, Missouri health officials announced Wednesday.

: On Wednesday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed that the patient being treated for PAM died ...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed the death of a patient after showing symptoms of a rare brain infection.

Missouri health officials confirm the death of an adult who was exposed to Naegleria fowleri last week. Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled free-living ameba that can cause rare deadly ...