A North Carolina teen's first symptom was severe headaches before a brain-eating amoeba infection proved fatal, his mother ...

North Carolina health officials confirmed a teen died after contracting a rare, often fatal brain infection caused by ...

A North Carolina teenager died from a rare brain-eating amoeba just days after his mother said she took him to an emergency ...

Naegleria fowleri is found in warm freshwater. The disease is only fatal if the amoeba enters the brain through the nose and does not cause illness if swallowed.

It all started with severe headaches. I never imagined that something like this could be so serious,” Moises Ponce Mendoza’s ...