>> WE’RE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT. THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH JUST ANNOUNCED THAT SOMEONE HAS DIED FROM A RARE BRAIN EATING AMOEBA. 40/29’S JACOB MURPHY JOINS US LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM TO ...
It sounds like something out of a science-fiction film: Naegleria fowleri. And in a way, it is. More commonly, it's called the brain-eating amoeba. It infects people when water containing the organism ...
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 ...