There’s a sinister health threat we’re not taking seriously enough, a new paper argues – and it’s not a virus, bacterium, nor ...

Composed of a single cell, amoeba seem harmless enough: They look like playful critters waltzing under the spotlight of a microscope until they come upon a group of bacteria. Then, these previously ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A new test developed by AdventHealth speeds up the ability to detect deadly brain-eating amoeba infections to hours instead of days. The new test reduces the time for a result from ...

The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. The Missouri health department says this is only the state's third case on record, but ...

The city of Arlington said Wednesday it is closing all of its public pools and splash pads after a water sample from a splash pad had a presumed positive test for the presence of brain-eating amoeba.

A tiny amoeba has broken a pretty big record. The newly discovered species of single-celled organism can divide and reproduce at a piping hot 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit), higher than ...

DEATH. GOOD EVENING. I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. JULIE: I’M JULIE CORNELL. NEBRASKA HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SAYS IF CONFIRMED BY TEST RESULTS, THE DEATH IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE STATE. HEALTH ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Experts in the Midlands and across the state weighed in Tuesday after officials confirmed a deadly case involving a brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina. On Tuesday, Prisma ...

Commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri) is a strain of amoeba that, as reported by USA Today, claimed the life of a two-year-old boy who was infected by the organism ...