Yucatán health authorities have detected in six artificial lakes the same brain-eating amoeba that killed a 34-year-old man ...

Tiny, shapeless invaders can find their way from ponds to the human brain and cause an infection so severe that it has a 95% fatality rate. The amoeba Naegleria fowleri naturally lives in ponds, ...

In 1972, two scientists wrote a paper hypothesizing that life more complex than bacteria cannot live in temperatures above 140 degrees Fahrenheit. That led to a scientific rule-of-thumb that persisted ...

A Missouri resident has contracted a rare and often fatal brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, commonly known as the "brain-eating amoeba." Infection occurs when water containing ...

Light microscope image and illustration of a Thecofilosea amoeba with intracellular Legionellales bacteria ('Ca. Pokemonas kadabra'). The bacteria were stained red by so-called 'fluorescence in situ ...

Learn more about Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba found in local swimming holes. In recent months, Kerala, India, has been hit hard by Naegleria fowleri, better known as the brain-eating ...