Composed of a single cell, amoeba seem harmless enough: They look like playful critters waltzing under the spotlight of a microscope until they come upon a group of bacteria. Then, these previously ...
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Amoebae: The microscopic health threat lurking in our water supplies. Are we taking them seriously?
There’s a sinister health threat we’re not taking seriously enough, a new paper argues – and it’s not a virus, bacterium, nor even a fungus. It’s the amoebae, free-living organisms that can survive ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – At least one person in South Carolina recently contracted a rare case of a brain-eating amoeba that occurs naturally in freshwater, state health officials have confirmed. The ...
Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina's most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and entered ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — For years, scientists have known people who use neti pots can become infected with a brain-eating amoeba if they use the wrong kind of water. On Wednesday, researchers linked a second ...
Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is a rare but devastating eye infection caused by a free-living amoeba found in water and soil.
Viral claims about 'brain-eating' amoebae spreading through global water systems have caused panic online. But what does the science really say about Naegleria fowleri and the actual risk to public ...
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