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 infection is almost always fatal.

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

A Missouri resident died Tuesday after contracting a rare and deadly microscopic amoeba while skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks.