amoebic meningoencephalitis (meningitis) when it infects the human brain, resulting in death of the patient. Also known as 'murder amoeba'. Kurzgesagt, a scientific YouTube channel, explains the ...

The man had been waterskiing on the Lake of the Ozarks in the days before contracting the infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...

Kerala is facing a rise in brain-eating amoeba infections, but increased detection efforts, including CSF analysis, explain the surge in reported cases. While the condition has a high mortality rate ...

A nine-year-old girl from Thamarassery, Kerala, succumbed to a brain infection. The infection was due to Naegleria fowleri. Health officials confirmed the death. This is the fourth reported case in ...

Kerala is facing a worrying spike in infections caused by Naegleria fowleri. It is often called the “brain-eating amoeba.” Over the past month alone, multiple deaths have been reported, and several ...

A nine-year-old girl in Kerala’s Kozhikode district died of amoebic encephalitis, a rare brain infection, spread through brain-eating amoeba. The girl was admitted to a hospital with fever on August ...

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 ...

India has issued a health alert after infections and deaths caused by a rare water-borne "brain-eating" amoeba doubled compared to last year in the southern state of Kerala. Numbers are still tiny but ...

The mother of a nine-year-old girl who died after contracting the so-called "brain-eating amoeba" says she is still struggling to comprehend the loss. "I cannot believe my daughter is gone," a sobbing ...

In recent months, Kerala, India, has been hit hard by Naegleria fowleri, better known as the brain-eating amoeba, where a reported 70 people have been diagnosed with the condition and 19 have died. In ...

A health expert claims there is no “documented guideline” for treating a rare brain infection that the Department of Health and Senior Services said on Wednesday could have been contracted by someone ...

Kerala has reported 67 confirmed cases of amoebic meningoencephalitis so far in 2025, with 18 people dying from the rare brain infection, revised figures from the state health department showed on ...