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MISSOURI (KFVS) - The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed the man with a brain-eating amoeba has died ...
The microscopic amoeba is commonly found in warm freshwater such as lakes, river and ponds. Test results by an independent lab confirmed the water is safe. (Free article.) Zoo staff hope their story ...
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed the death of a patient after showing symptoms of a rare brain infection.
Individuals become infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose from freshwater sources.
A Missourian who contracted an amoeba that kills brain cells at the Lake of the Ozarks has died, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Wednesday. The Department of Mental Health ...
A federal judge has ruled that several Texas school districts do not need to comply with a state law requiring the Ten ...
A patient who was infected earlier this summer with a rare brain-eating amoeba has died from the infection, Missouri health ...
The man infected with a "brain-eating" amoeba died Tuesday in a St. Louis-area hospital. The Missouri health department said ...
The patient contracted Naegleria fowleri while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, health officials said. Here's what we know.
Missouri health officials confirm the death of an adult who was exposed to Naegleria fowleri last week. Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled free-living ameba that can cause rare deadly ...
Cars drive along Old US Higway 50 near Central Community High School District #71 where a billboard promoting the Proud Boys ...
A man is in the ICU after swimming in the Lake of the Ozarks, and the CDC says this amoeba can be deadly in the first 18 days ...