Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing ...
One of the world’s most dangerous water-borne microorganisms, commonly called a “brain-eating amoeba”, has recently been detected in two drinking water supplies in south-west Queensland. Both affected ...
Researchers warn that free-living amoebas, microscopic organisms thriving in soil and water, are spreading globally due to ...
Researchers are warning of the "urgent need" to address a growing parasitic population ...
The potentially deadly amoeba, commonly called the “brain-eating” amoeba, was found in St.Bernard Parish’s water supply for the second time in two years. The parish is about five miles outside of New ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina's most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm ...
A Missouri resident has died from a rare brain infection after water skiing in the Lake of the Ozarks. Typically, fewer than 10 cases of the infection are reported in the U.S. each year, the state ...