NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the Naegleria fowleri situation in Karachi this year, the Sindh health department reports a third death due to the brain eating amoeba in a week. As previously...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the South Korean national who contracted Naegleria fowleri in Thailand, the Thailand Office of International Cooperation, Department of Disease Control released...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Tarrant County Public Health and the City of Arlington were notified on September 5 that a child was hospitalized at Cook Children’s Medical Center with primary...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 According to a new study published in the journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Naegleria fowleri is a free-living ameba that causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM),...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Last fall, 10-year-old Lily Mae Avant from Bosque County, Texas contracted the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri while swimming in the Brazos River and later...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on a report from earlier this month, the 15-year-old teen who contracted the parasite, Naegleria fowleri, from the thermal springs of Guayabo de Bagaces...

Officials with the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in Karachi, Pakistan is reporting the death of a 21-year old student from the Orangi Town area due to the “brain-eating amoeba”,...

A 40-year-old Karachi man is the first fatal victim of the “brain-eating amoeba”, Naegleria fowleri, in Sindh province this year, according to a Dawn.com report. The news report does not...

Naegleria fowleri is a protozoan parasite , more specifically an amoeba. This lethal parasite is commonly referred to as the “brain eating amoeba” in mainstream media. It is generally considered a...

Florida health officials reported Wednesday that a individual from Broward County has contracted the brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri. The Florida Department of Health says the unidentified person...