Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the phrase “brain-eating amoeba” sounds like something out of a sci-fi horror movie, you’re not alone. In Arizona, it’s a very ...

Many North Carolina residents have heard stories of "brain-eating" amoebas and "flesh-eating" bacteria lurking in bodies of water. Is there any truth to these stories? Recent headlines have told the ...

COLUMBIA — An infectious disease expert with MU Health Care said that while a severe brain infection caused by an amoeba is often deadly, it is extremely rare. Christian Rojas Moreno said the way to ...

A person has died after being infected with a brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina, officials announced. A patient at Prisma Health Children's Hospital Midlands in South Carolina died after being ...

Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, found in warm coastal waters, have caused deaths in North Carolina and Florida. Naegleria fowleri, known as the "brain-eating amoeba," lives in freshwater and can cause ...