The family of Lily Mae Avant, the 10-year-old from central Texas who contracted a brain-eating amoeba, said the little girl has died early Monday morning. She "fought the good fight," said her aunt, ...

A 10-year-old girl has died after her family says she contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a river near her home in Central Texas. Lily Avant, of Whitney, died nearly a week after ...

Health officials in Nevada suspect a child died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba from natural hot springs. According to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, the child could have ...

A man who was being treated for a rare infection from a brain-eating amoeba has died. The Lake of Three Fires beach in Taylor County, Iowa, suspected of being the source of the single-celled amoeba, ...

The Missouri patient who contracted an infection from a brain-eating amoeba has died, local officials confirmed. The patient passed away Tuesday at a hospital in the St. Louis, Missouri area, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) — A South Carolina family is mourning the loss of their young son, who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba from swimming in a popular lake. Jaysen Carr, a ...

A child in Nebraska is suspected to have died from a rare case of brain-eating amoeba, health officials said Wednesday. If confirmed, it will be the first known death from Naegleria fowleri in the ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KTVI) — An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this month, officials have confirmed. The person, who has not been publicly ...

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SEATTLE, Washington -- Doctors believe a woman who died from rare brain-eating amoeba used tap water to rinse her sinuses. The 69-year-old Seattle resident died in February after undergoing brain ...