Yes, Brain Eating Amoebas Are Real
by Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki from Lifehacker on (#58MCY)
Recently, a boy in Texas died of an infection with what headlines are calling a brain-eating amoeba." Unlike other catchy nicknames for little-known life forms (remember murder hornets?), this one accurately describes the organism in question. It's an amoeba, and in rare cases it does actually feed on human brain...