After the death of a young boy due to contaminated city water in Lake Jackson, health officials are working to ensure the water supply in Brazoria County is safe — a process they say could take months ...

The free-living amoebae, also known as brain-eating amoebae, are becoming a growing global public health threat, warned a new ...

Climate change-induced warming means the amoeba can now be present in areas of the country where it didn’t used to be and has extended the amoeba’s life span past the summer months. The death of a ...

People can become infected when contaminated water enters the body, experts say. A Nevada child died after being infected by a brain-eating amoeba in an "extremely rare" occurrence, the Southern ...

State Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, is hosting a community meeting Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Chalmette to discuss the latest incident of the brain-eating amoeba found in the public water system. ...

The city of Arlington said Wednesday it is closing all of its public pools and splash pads after a water sample from a splash pad had a presumed positive test for the presence of brain-eating amoeba.