The practice of agriculture, including the seeding, cultivation and harvesting of food crops, is not limited to humans and has been shown to be a feature of several members of the insect world. With ...

A microscopic creature from a boiling hot spring in Northern California has just reset the upper limit for how hot complex ...

A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of ...

Naegleria fowleri, the so-called brain eating amoeba, has been blamed for three deaths so far this year in the United States. Now, health officials in Louisiana are keeping a close eye on two water ...

A sharp rise in rare and fatal brain infections—from Kerala’s Naegleria fowleri cases to Japanese encephalitis across 11 ...

Human norovirus and adenovirus, two major causes of viral gastroenteritis, can persist for extended periods inside ...

Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.

A Kansas girl is the latest victim of the deadly infection. — -- Kansas health officials are urging swimmers to take extra care in warm freshwater, which could be home to millions of microscopic ...

Rare infection suspected after child becomes critically ill. — -- Officials are investigating if a parasitic amoeba made a child critically ill after swimming in a Minnesota lake this summer. The ...

Amoebic meningoencephalitis caused more deaths than flu (influenza) and rabies in the state in 2025. The health department ...

The family of an Ohio teen that died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba during a Whitewater rafting trip last June recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a North Carolina recreation ...