September 16, 2010 — Balamuthia mandrillaris, an ameba found in soil, has caused Balamuthia granulomatous amebic encephalitis in 2 patients who received kidney transplants from the same donor. One ...

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Joseph DeRisi explaining the characteristics of Balamuthia mandrillaris, at the inaugural session of UCSF's public lecture series on 11/06. Photo by Anusha Subramanian. What do brain-eating amoebas, a ...

A 3-year-old Rohnert Park girl died after being infected with a rare organism that destroyed her brain as she lay in a coma for two days, it was revealed yesterday. Just how Aletha Leigh Willis ...

HEMET (CBSLA.com) — Video footage of Koral Reef just months before her death shows a happy and healthy young woman getting fit for her big day. The young woman from Winchester married her high school ...

A mother in Southern California is grieving the loss of her 20-year-old daughter who died suddenly after contracting a deadly brain-eating amoeba. Koral Reef Pier died in October from a rare, but ...

(CBS13/CNN) - A Seattle woman rinsed her sinuses with tap water. A year later, she died of a brain-eating amoeba. Her case is reported this week in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

A 69-year-old woman died after contracting an amoeba infection in her brain, LiveScience reported. Doctors suspected that she got the infection because she repeatedly cleaned out her sinuses with ...

2001-04-21 04:00:00 PDT Sonoma-- No one knows why Hayden Dryden survived an attack by the same rare amoeba that killed a Rohnert Park toddler earlier this month and an Orange County boy in March. The ...

Twenty-year-old Koral Reef's life was just beginning. She said yes to the dress and married her high school sweetheart. But Reef never got the chance to enjoy her happily ever after when she ...