GREENSBORO, N.C. — You can get both from swimming and both are potentially dangerous, but here’s what you should know about brain-eating amoeba and flesh-eating bacteria. The two are both rare, but ...
Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.
Deadly brain infections once associated with rare summer swims in southern lakes are now appearing in places that never expected them. As free-living amoebas adapt to warmer waters and modern plumbing ...