With over 4,000 distinct species of snakes on the planet, it makes sense that some have adapted to overcome their limited ...

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BACKGROUND Acanthamoeba is a free-living amoeba widely distributed, responsible for keratitis and granulomatous amoebic encephalitis. The presence of virulence factors in its excretion/secretion ...

Collaborative prevention and control strategies should target cities experiencing frequent patient migration and cater to unique migration patterns of each disease. Addressing disparity in healthcare ...

Although an unusual occurrence, the woman was tragically exposed to Naegleria fowleri, a rare brain-eating amoeba. Just days later, she began showing symptoms of infection. Less than a week after ...

A woman in Texas used unsafe water for nasal irrigation and caught the violent Naegleria fowleri. She died 8 days later. Another person has died of Naegleria fowleri, a violent brain-eating amoeba ...

A woman in Texas has died after contracting a fatal brain amoeba from contaminated water. The patient, 71, had used a nasal irrigation device filled with unboiled tap water from an RV’s water ...

A Texas woman died from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba days after she cleaned her sinuses using tap water, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case report.

Texas woman dies from brain-eating amoeba after using tap water in nasal rinse The woman used tap water from an RV to rinse her sinuses, leading to a rare and often fatal brain infection caused by ...

Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on larger animals ...