Within four days of using the nasal device, she contracted "severe neurologic symptoms," including headache, fever, and ...

A healthy Texas woman, 71, died from Naegleria fowleri, or brain-eating amoeba, after using a nasal irrigation device with ...

and vomiting.When his condition worsened, he was transferred to Beilinson. According to the US Centers for Disease Control, it is commonly called the “brain-eating amoeba” because it can cause ...

Florida's Department of Health (DOH) said the initial signs of a brain-destroying amoeba include fever, nausea and vomiting. Local residents are being advised to only use distilled or sterile ...

Officials say the source was a brain-eating amoeba, and that this was the first ... severe headaches, nausea and vomiting. Those progress into stiff neck, seizures, altered mental state ...

A Georgia resident has died from a rare brain infection, commonly known as the "brain-eating amoeba," state health ... nausea and vomiting and progress to a stiff neck, seizures and coma that ...

Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic amoeba that lives in warm freshwater ... These include headache, fever, nausea and vomiting. Soon, this progresses to stiff neck, confusion, seizures, hallucinations ...

nausea and vomiting and progress to stiff neck, seizures, and coma that can lead to death. Because Naegleria fowleri occurs naturally in the environment, there is no means to eliminate the amoeba ...

The amoeba breaks down brain tissue, leading to severe headaches, fever, nausea and vomiting, eventually progressing to stiff neck, seizures, coma and in some cases, death, officials said.