A patient who was infected earlier this summer with a rare brain-eating amoeba has died from the infection, Missouri health officials announced Wednesday.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) announced Wednesday that a patient who was diagnosed with a rare ...

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and ...

Missouri health leaders have confirmed that the patient suffering from a laboratory-confirmed infection of a brain-eating ...

The microscopic amoeba is commonly found in warm freshwater such as lakes, river and ponds. Test results by an independent ...

Earlier this month, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported that the patient was being treated.

: On Wednesday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed that the patient being treated for PAM died ...

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 ...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that the patient died on August 19 at a hospital in St. Louis.

The patient contracted Naegleria fowleri while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, health officials said. Here's what we know.

The individual was diagnosed with Naegleria fowleri on Aug. 13. DHSS believes it was contracted while the individual was ...