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

ST. LOUIS, Mo. ( KTVI) — An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this month, officials have confirmed.

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Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled free-living ameba that can cause a rare deadly infection of the brain called ...

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 ...

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

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is conducting an invasive carp removal in the Platte River.

The man infected with a "brain-eating" amoeba died Tuesday in a St. Louis-area hospital. The Missouri health department said the man who died had been water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks in the ...

The patient contracted Naegleria fowleri while water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks, health officials said. Here's what we ...

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

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