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Missouri health officials are investigating how the person was exposed, but they may have been in the water at Lake of the ...

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

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KTVI) — An adult in Missouri has died after they became infected with a brain-eating amoeba earlier this ...

Missouri health officials confirm the resident who contracted a case of what is commonly known as the "brain-eating" amoeba ...

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The amoeba is typically found in warm freshwater ... open image in gallery The Lake of the Ozarks is located in central ...

The man infected with a "brain-eating" amoeba died Tuesday in a St. Louis-area hospital. The Missouri health department said ...

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