Naegleriaviruses are taken up mistakenly as a food source but destroy their amoeba hosts within just few hours. They exhibit a structure familiar in giant viruses, infecting host cells via a so ...

Aquaman once encountered a giant Amoeba that consumed anything it came in contact with. A group of fishermen tried to kill it using bullets, glass, and other oddball weapons, but it survived them all.

A young boy who contracted an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a Northern California lake has died. He was 7. Late last month, David Pruitt of Tehama County was brought to the ...