“食脑虫”的致病方式很特殊——必须经由鼻腔吸入才会造成颅内感染，与人们饮用的水质无关。一是因为胃酸环境下，病虫无法存活，二是因为此病虫无法通过消化道侵入中枢神经系统。

Singaporean filmmaker Tan Siyou will be presenting her first feature, “Amoeba,” this week at the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market. It’s produced by Fran Borgia of Singapore ...

The young boy died due to an infection by a brain eating amoeba. He was under treatment for amoebic meningoencephalitis, a ...

A case of a rare brain-eating amoeba has been confirmed in Florida, according to health officials in the US state. The Florida Department of Health (DOH) said one person in Hillsborough County had ...

An Indian teenager is now among a handful of people in the world to survive a rare brain-eating amoeba, partly due to his father coming across a public awareness campaign on social media.

This amoeba, a single-celled organism, acquires energy by engulfing nutrients in the form of a yeast cell (red). Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its ...

The clinical spectrum of intestinal E. histolytica infection ranges from an asymptomatic carrier state to severe invasive disease. Asymptomatic cyst carriage occurs with E. histolytica as well as ...