Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday appointed the FDNY's second female commissioner, naming Lillian Bonsignore to take the helm at the agency after he is sworn in on Jan. 1. Bonsignore, a former ...

An 8-year-old girl in Louisiana died after she was infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba, leaving her family devastated. Lillian Smart died the day after her birthday, on Sunday, Aug. 22, her ...

Lillian Smart most likely contracted the parasite while swimming in a lake in northwest Louisiana, the state Health Department and a family spokesman said. Lillian Smart died at a Shreveport-area ...

An 8-year-old girl in Louisiana has died after being infected by an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba that is found in warm freshwater, her family says. Lillian Smart died over the weekend after ...

RUSTON, La. -- An 8-year-old girl in Louisiana has died after being infected by an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba that is found in warm freshwater, her family says. Lillian Smart died over the ...

RUSTON, La. — The family of an eight-year-old girl from Ruston, Louisiana, confirmed she passed away Saturday night following a battle with a rare brain-eating amoeba. Lillian Smart’s death comes days ...

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Lillian Smart, an 8-year-old girl who health officials believe contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a northern Louisiana lake, died Saturday at a Ruston hospital from an infection linked ...

An 8-year-old Louisiana girl has died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba. The infection was likely acquired while swimming in Lake Claiborne, according to health officials. The amoeba, Naegleria ...

RUSTON, La. — A 8-year-old Louisiana girl has died after contracting a rare, brain-eating amoeba infection during a recent swim at Lake Claiborne. Lillian Smart died Saturday, just one day after her ...

An 8-year-old Ruston girl is being treated in a pediatric intensive care unit after health officials confirmed she contracted Naegleria fowleri, a rare and often deadly “brain-eating” amoeba, likely ...