A Missouri man’s lake outing has ended in tragedy. Local health officials announced this week that a resident died from a ...

Missouri health officials are investigating how the person was exposed, but they may have been in the water at Lake of the ...

A Missouri resident has contracted a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks days prior.

Missouri health officials confirm the resident who contracted a case of what is commonly known as the "brain-eating" amoeba ...

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.

The man had been waterskiing on the Lake of the Ozarks in the days before contracting the infection, known as primary amebic ...

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

The man infected with a "brain-eating" amoeba died Tuesday in a St. Louis-area hospital. The Missouri health department said ...

A Missouri resident has died from a rare brain infection after water skiing in the Lake of the Ozarks.

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