A Missouri resident has died from a rare brain infection after water skiing in the Lake of the Ozarks.

Thousands of boat enthusiasts and partygoers will be attending the 37th annual Lake of the Ozarks Shootout this weekend, ...

The microscopic amoeba is commonly found in warm freshwater such as lakes, river and ponds. Test results by an independent lab confirmed the water is safe. (Free article.) Zoo staff hope their story ...

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and tissue death. Fewer than 200 people have contracted the amoeba since 1962, but ...

St. Charles County Police arrested Louis Nicholas Saubers III at St. Charles High on Tuesday over a possession of child ...

State troopers said the child entered the water from the back of an anchored boat and drowned. Just last week, a 2-year-old ...

A 3-year-old boy from Tuscumbia, Missouri, drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks on Sunday, August 17, making it the seventh ...

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. ( KY3 /Gray News) – A 3-year-old boy drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri on Sunday afternoon.

A Missouri resident has contracted a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks days prior.

While health officials have not confirmed the cause of the resident’s infection, preliminary information indicates they were ...

This comes just five days after a 2-year-old girl from Gravois Mills, Missouri, a small town in Morgan County, also drowned ...

The deadly infection has been historically rare, but as climate change heats up waters and worsens flooding, research shows ...