Naegleria fowleri is a rare and lethal infection caused by brain-eating amoeba (aka PAM) that thrives in warm freshwater ...

The young boy died due to an infection by a brain eating amoeba. He was under treatment for amoebic meningoencephalitis, a ...

it can be deadly—a brain infection by a microbe widely known as the "brain-eating amoeba." The pathogen in question is called Naegleria fowleri. The "brain-eating" part makes it sound like an ...

Naegleriasis, a parasitic disease caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, cannot be transmitted ... first case of the disease which affects the brain had been detected in the country.

When it’s not eating your brain. There’s a strange irony to the fact that a close relative of the brain-devouring amoeba species, Naegleria fowleri, could be the source of a greater understanding of ...

5-year-old girl in Kerala dies of infection caused by brain-eating amoeba after dip in a pond The girl had taken bath in a nearby pond on May 1 and by May 10 showed symptoms of fever, headache and ...

SEOUL (The Korea Herald/Asia News Network): South Korea reported its first case of infection from Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as “brain-eating amoeba”, health authorities said on ...