Brain infections caused by so‑called brain‑eating amoebas have long been treated as medical curiosities, terrifying but vanishingly rare. That framing is starting to look dangerously outdated. As the ...

Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said people who eat imported, "radioactive" shrimp will turn you into an alien, or at the very least cause you "to grow an extra ear." The senator’s strange diatribe may ...

Naegleria fowleri, commonly called the brain-eating amoeba, is a rare but serious threat in warm freshwater during hot months. The amoeba enters through the nose and travels to the brain, causing a ...