Patient Hospitalized with Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba, Possibly From Water-Skiing: Officials

Swimmer contracts brain-eating amoeba at Missouri lake

A man is in the ICU after swimming in the Lake of the Ozarks, and the CDC says this amoeba can be deadly in the first 18 days of infection that usually starts five days after symptoms show.

Patient hospitalized with rare brain-eating amoeba, possibly from water-skiing: Officials

(WJW) - A Missouri resident remains in intensive care at the hospital after health officials said she was infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba. According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, the adult patient contracted primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare and deadly brain infection that comes from the microscopic single-celled amoeba Naegleria fowleri. Brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri protozoans in trop…

Missouri resident hospitalized with 'brain-eating' infection possibly linked to water skiing, officials say

A Missouri resident has been hospitalized with what health officials described as a deadly "brain-eating infection" after possibly waterskiing in a local lake

Warning issued after state sees first brain-eating amoeba case in 3 years

The rare brain infection is almost always fatal. Only four people in the U.S. have survived since 1962.

Missouri Patient in ICU for 97% Fatal ‘Brain-Eating’ Infection Linked to Waterskiing on Local Lake

A man has been hospitalized with Naegleria fowleri, a single-celled amoeba that can cause deadly infections Getty Stock image of Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.NEED TO KNOWA Missouri resident is in the ICU with primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), an infection caused by the “brain-eating” amoeba Naegleria fowleriThe patient had been waterskiing on the popular Lake of the Ozarks, which is being investigated as the source of the infectionAlth…