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

The Department of Natural Resources has released its weekly Beach Status report which shows no E-coli concerns and an ...

Naegleria fowleri is a one-celled organism that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explains is “often called the ...

Comptroller Donna Baringer is calling for an investigation into how her predecessor, Darlene Green, was issued paychecks ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Across Missouri, reports of waterborne bacteria and related illnesses have been on the ...

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

Democrat Mark Osmack will run in next year's primary for the district that includes Fenton, Manchester, and Town and Country.

A very rare and apparently very confused subtropical wood stork somehow found its way to the wilds of Wisconsin. A hunter scouting for deer first sighted the bird Sunday in a ...

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

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 ...

With news breaking this week about a case of a Missouri man suffering from a brain-eating infection connected to a possible ...