The person is fighting the infection at an intensive care unit in Missouri, officials said.

A tiny amoeba has broken a pretty big record. The newly discovered species of single-celled organism can divide and reproduce at a piping hot 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit), a higher ...

A person who officials believe was infected with a brain-eating amoeba from a South Carolina lake has died.

A man in Georgia died at 82 after being infected by an amoeba that is presumed to have grown in soil, according to a case study published by researchers at Emory University. According to the case ...