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The CDC has recorded 154 infections with the Naegleria fowleri amoeba since 1962. Most cases came from Southern states. Map shows where brain-eating amoebas are infecting people in lakes across the US
Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a species of the genus Naegleria. It belongs to the phylum Percolozoa and is classified as an amoeboflagellate excavate , [ 1 ] an organism capable of behaving as both an amoeba and a flagellate .
Naegleria fowleri is also known as the "brain-eating amoeba". This common name has also been applied to Balamuthia mandrillaris, causing some confusion between the two; Balamuthia mandrillaris is unrelated to Naegleria fowleri, and causes a different disease called granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.
From 1962 to 2021, only four out of 154 people in the United States survived a brain-eating amoeba infection, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The term "brain-eating amoeba" has been used to refer to several microorganisms: Naegleria fowleri, which causes naegleriasis; Acanthamoeba spp., which causes the slow-acting infection acanthamoebiasis; Balamuthia mandrillaris, which causes balamuthiasis; Paravahlkampfia francinae, which causes a form of PAM; Sappinia pedata, which causes a ...
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Amoebic encephalitis or amoebic meningoencephalitis may refer to several potentially fatal diseases that are infections of the central nervous system by free-living amoebae, often referred to in the media as a "brain-eating amoeba" infection: Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis; Naegleriasis, also known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
Google maps. A 2-year-old boy from Nevada, died this week from a Naegleria fowleri infection, also known as a brain-eating amoeba, state health officials and his mother said.