A microscopic creature from a boiling hot spring in Northern California has just reset the upper limit for how hot complex ...

In a corner of a national park where the ground steams and the air smells faintly of sulfur, scientists have stumbled on a ...

Naegleria fowleri, the "brain-eating amoeba" speeded up under a microscope. Driver of Tesla that went airborne in deadly Southern California crash identified ...

Naegleria fowleri seen under a microscope. A 2-year-old boy who visited a hot spring died of a brain-eating amoeba, Nevada health officials and the boy’s mother say. Photo from Centers for Disease ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - As Lake Waco’s water levels continue to drop and water temperatures stay above 80 degrees, this is a prime environment for brain-eating amoebas to flourish, increasing likelihood ...

A Nevada boy has died after he was infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that he may have been exposed to at Lake Mead, state health officials announced Wednesday. The boy, described as a Clark ...

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An investigation is underway after a Florida resident died from a rare "brain-eating" infection. A microscopic amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, may have been contracted from tap water. The Florida ...

A Missouri resident who became infected with a rare, brain-eating amoeba possibly while swimming in an Iowa lake has died, health officials said. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services ...

A brain-eating amoeba killed a Nevada child possibly exposed during a visit to a hot spring, state health officials reported. The child died following a trip to Ash Springs, a natural hot spring on ...