LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. (KSNW) — A 2-year-old girl is dead after a drowning at the Lake of the Ozarks.

A Missouri resident has been hospitalized with what health officials described as a deadly "brain-eating infection" after ...

The Missouri Department of Health has begun an investigation into the brain-eating ameba after a person showed symptoms after ...

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

The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. Infections are rare ...

A Missouri resident has been hospitalized with a deadly brain-eating infection after possibly waterskiing in a local 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 ...

As public health officials investigate the source of the exposure, it’s believed the patient went water skiing at the Lake of ...

The infection comes as Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old boy from South Carolina, died on July 18 after being exposed to Naegleria ...

STONE COUNTY, Mo. (KCTV) - A teenager died in a drowning Thursday at Table Rock Lake. Missouri State Highway Patrol officials said a 16-year-old boy was swimming between docks on Table Rock Lake when ...

The rare infection occurs when the ameba, naegleria fowleri, — which is found in fresh water — travels from the nose into the ...

A person has been hospitalized after contracting a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba from swimming in a popular ...