It’s a single-celled parasite that can enter your body without you realizing it. Then this microscopic beast works its way to your brain, settles in and starts eating until it leaves you comatose. If ...

Scientists are warning that a microscopic predator is quietly exploiting the world’s warming and aging water systems, slipping past filters and disinfectants to reach human noses and, in rare cases, ...

LAKE JACKSON, Texas (KXAN) — Residents of Lake Jackson in Brazoria County, south of Houston, are being warned not to use their tap water because a brain-eating microbe could be inside it. On Friday, ...

A Missouri resident is in intensive care after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba, likely while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, state health officials confirmed Wednesday. The case of ...

LAKE JACKSON, Texas (KXAN) — Residents of Lake Jackson in Brazoria County, south of Houston, are being warned not to use their tap water because a brain-eating microbe could be inside it. On Friday, ...