A three-year-old boy from Tuscumbia, Mo., drowned Sunday afternoon in the Lake of the Ozarks. According to a report from the ...

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

A Missouri resident has contracted a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks days prior.

Health officials in Missouri say a resident has contracted a lab-confirmed case of what is commonly known as "brain-eating" ...

This comes just five days after a 2-year-old girl from Gravois Mills, Missouri, a small town in Morgan County, also drowned ...

Individuals become infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose from freshwater sources.

ST. LOUIS — A man is battling for his life at a St. Louis-area hospital after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba ...

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. ( KY3 /Gray News) – A 3-year-old boy drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri on Sunday afternoon.

A woman from Lake Ozark was seriously hurt after being thrown from a jet ski at Lake of the Ozarks on Sunday evening. The ...

Lake of the Ozarks State Park's campground section 4 has reopened after undergoing extensive renovations, according to a news ...

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

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