Thousands of boat enthusiasts and partygoers will be attending the 37th annual Lake of the Ozarks Shootout this weekend, ...

Missouri resident dies from brain-eating amoeba after water skiing in Lake of the Ozarks - There are fewer than 10 cases of ...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) announced Wednesday that a patient who was diagnosed with a rare ...

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and tissue death. Fewer than 200 people have contracted the amoeba since 1962, but ...

St. Charles County Police arrested Louis Nicholas Saubers III at St. Charles High on Tuesday over a possession of child ...

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. ( KY3 /Gray News) – A 3-year-old boy drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri on Sunday afternoon.

This comes just five days after a 2-year-old girl from Gravois Mills, Missouri, a small town in Morgan County, also drowned ...

State troopers said the child entered the water from the back of an anchored boat and drowned. Just last week, a 2-year-old ...

ST. LOUIS — A man is battling for his life at a St. Louis-area hospital after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba ...

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

Individuals become infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose from freshwater sources.

A 3-year-old boy from Tuscumbia, Missouri, drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks on Sunday, August 17, making it the seventh ...