Kerala has recorded an unprecedented 160 cases of amoebic meningoencephalitis this year. But for an infection with a death rate of about 97%, it has been only 23% in the state so far.
The so called brain-eating amoeba, or Naegleria fowleri, killed a South Carolina boy early in July after swimming in a lake there. Here's what you need to know about this highly deadly pathogen that ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The brain-eating amoeba enters the body when water is forced ...