LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. (KSNW) — A 2-year-old girl is dead after a drowning at the Lake of the Ozarks.

The deadly infection has been historically rare, but as climate change heats up waters and worsens flooding, research shows ...

A Missouri resident has been hospitalized with what health officials described as a deadly "brain-eating infection" after ...

Naegleria fowleri is a one-celled organism that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explains is “often called the ...

A Missouri resident has been hospitalized with a deadly brain-eating infection after possibly waterskiing in a local lake.

The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. Infections are rare ...

A man is in the ICU after swimming in the Lake of the Ozarks, and the CDC says this amoeba can be deadly in the first 18 days ...

STONE COUNTY, Mo. (KCTV) - A teenager died in a drowning Thursday at Table Rock Lake. Missouri State Highway Patrol officials said a 16-year-old boy was swimming between docks on Table Rock Lake when ...

The rare infection occurs when the ameba, naegleria fowleri, — which is found in fresh water — travels from the nose into the ...

A person has been hospitalized after contracting a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba from swimming in a popular ...

The infection comes as Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old boy from South Carolina, died on July 18 after being exposed to Naegleria ...

The man was rushed to intensive care after developing a rare condition that only seven people have survived just days after ...