The Florida Department of Health (DOH) said one person in Hillsborough County had contracted Naegleria fowleri. The microscopic, single-celled amoeba can cause an infection of the brain ...

Rat brain cell in absence or presence of Naegleria fowleri. A: Unaffected cell, B: N. fowleri in contact with brain cell after six hours of inoculation, C: Affected cell after 18 hours of ...

His doctor said that the amoeba - called Naegleria fowleri - likely entered his body from the water that had been contaminated by it. Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), the disease caused ...

A 19-year-old man in Karachi succumbed to a fatal infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the "brain-eating amoeba" on Monday, bringing the city's death toll from this rare ...

The suspected cause of death is primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a life-threatening brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, Douglas County health officials said in a news ...

According to Missouri's health department, the case was only the second Naegleria fowleri infection in a Missouri resident and the first in 35 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...