Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What to know about rare brain-eating amoeba after Texas woman dies A Texas woman has died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes ...

A Missouri resident has contracted a rare and often fatal brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, commonly known as the "brain-eating amoeba." Infection occurs when water containing ...