A new federal study has found a rare but dangerous “brain-eating amoeba” in warm recreational waters at several western ...

A new study found an often fatal, brain-eating amoeba in three western U.S. National Parks and recreation areas. The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, is rare but has a 98% fatality rate. A person can become ...

Some of the country’s most popular national parks are hiding a potentially deadly secret in their water. As part of a new study, researchers found Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri), also known as the ...

The Naegleria fowleri amoeba can cause a rare but fatal brain infection that progresses quickly and can’t be cured. It has been found in several recreational locations in the U.S., with the number of ...

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version misstated the nature of amoebas, which are single-celled eukaryotic organisms. A single-celled organism known as the "brain-eating amoeba" was found ...

Nevadans looking to explore the great outdoors should be aware of the single-celled organism known as the "brain-eating amoeba." The amoebas were found in two of the U.S.'s most popular national parks ...

Brain infections caused by so‑called brain‑eating amoebas have long been treated as medical curiosities, terrifying but vanishingly rare. That framing is starting to look dangerously outdated. As the ...