Amoeba

<!-- -->The symptoms of the disease appear one to 12 days after the exposure.A two-year-old boy in Nevada, United States, died on July 19 from the infection of Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as the "brain-eating amoeba".…

Primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare brain infection, claimed the life of a 15-year-old boy on Friday in Kerala's Alappuzha district. According to Kerala's state health minister Veena George, a 11-year-old boy who had a rare…

A teen in Florida has cheated death after catching a brain infection that has a 97 percent death rate.Fourteen-year-old Caleb Ziegelbaur spent nearly a year in hospital fighting a brain-eating amoeba after contracting it while swimming at…

In an scary case, South Korea reported its first case of infection with Naegleria fowleri, also known as “brain-eating amoeba," on Monday, a report by the Korea Times said. The 50-year-old Korean national who had recently returned from…

A rare and potentially deadly brain-eating amoeba has been identified in South Korea for the first time. The amoeba, known as naegleria fowleri, is typically found in warm freshwater and soil, and can cause a rare and severe infection…

Researchers from the French National Centre for Scientific Research have revived more than a dozen prehistoric viruses that were previously trapped deep within the Siberian permafrost, according to a pre-print study. From seven…

A young boy in Nevada has died of a brain eating amoeba that officials believe he contracted at Lake Mead, local officials reported.The child, a Clark county resident who has not been named, may have been exposed to Naegleria fowleri at the…

The death of a Nebraska child has been linked to the brain eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri that kills nearly every single person it infects. The unnamed child is believed to have caught the infection while swimming in Elkhorn River, which…

Freshwater lakes and rivers across America may have a deadly parasite lurking in them this summer that rapidly eats away at the brain - and experts warn that if it gets into your nose, it has a 97 percent chance of being fatal, often within…

Missouri Swimmer dies after catching deadly brain-eating amoeba in Iowa lakeIndividual, who has not been named, was visiting the Lake of Three Fires in IowaThey had come on a trip from neighboring Missouri, where they…