A rare but deadly waterborne brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri has been blamed for three deaths in the United States within the last few weeks, according to recent reports.
The deadly brain-eating amoeba parasite has claimed a third American life in less than a month, the new victim being a man in his early 20s.
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Three people are now dead after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba that lives in fresh water around the world.
Sixteen-year-old Courtney Nash, who died from a brain infection last week after going for a swim in a Florida river, reportedly is the third person to die after being exposed to the waterborne amoeba Naegleria fowleri.
Three people have died so far this summer
Reports suggest that a "brain-eating" amoeba called Naegleria fowleri has claimed yet another life in the United States, this time a nine-year-old boy in Virginia.
A 9-year-old Virgina boy died from a waterborne amoeba infection only days after a Florida teen was killed by the same ailment.
Researchers in Singapore re-engineered a harmless strain of bacteria to fight another common, drug-resistant microbe called Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which spreads in hospitals and is deadly to patients with weak immune systems, according to findings published in the journal Molecular Systems Biology on Tuesday.
Amoeba Parasite has caused second death in a month's time. The victim is a nine-year-old boy from Virginia, who got infected with a dangerous freshwater amoeba, a Richmond Times-Dispatch report said.
Scientists in Singapore are designing "suicide bomber" bacteria that kill a harmful microbe called pseudomonas aeruginosa. Those bacteria, which commonly infect hospital patients with compromised immune systems, target tissue and can cause fatal infections.
U.S. health experts are turning to sophisticated computer mapping technology and electronic medical records to identify pockets of Americans most at risk of HIV infection.
A new drug, dubbed 'DRACO' by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works by targeting a type of RNA produced only in virus-infected cells.
A dangerous amoeba that thrives in warm, freshwater bodies in the heat of summer caused the recent death of a 16-year-old Central Florida girl, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control confirmed on Monday.
A Florida teenager who died over the weekend from a suspected amoeba infection became an organ donor at age 14, according to her mother.
A camp in Virginia has no traditional activities such as fishing or swimming but it provides young women with statistics scarier than any campfire story - a possible HIV/AIDS diagnosis.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, have developed what could be a groundbreaking drug that seems effective at curing nearly any viral infection to include the common cold, influenza and other such illnesses.
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Not only can vampire bats locate hotspots or blood vessels in their prey using infrared vein sensors on their lips, which was revealed in a study earlier this month, the blood-sucking bats may also be carrying rabies virus, as U.S. health officials confirmed Friday the first death in the country from rabies carried by the animals.
The camp in the state of Virginia has no traditional activities such as fishing or swimming but it provides young girls with statistics scarier than any campfire story.
Scientists at MIT are developing a new drug that has the potential to revolutionize medicine with its ability to treat almost any viral infection.