Once inside the brain, the amoeba attacks and feeds on brain tissue, shredding neurons and causing severe inflammation. It ...

It's lurking like some deadly thing in the water which can take ... The killer that lives in the hot, fresh water is a single cell amoeba that once exposed to the human brain through the nasal ...

A 10-year-old girl from Bosque County, Texas has died after contracting a deadly and rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a fresh water river over Labor Day weekend. Lily Mae Avant died on ...

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This gives the amoeba an opportunity to travel up your nose and then to the brain. The deadly amoeba destroys your brain tissue and causes a devastating infection called primary amoebic ...