Brain-eating amoeba in Lake Lilly kills young boy

Dr. Ellen Brisch, MSUM, provides information on Naegleria fowleri. By: WDAY Staff Reports, WDAY Lake Lilly, MN (WDAY TV) — A warning, but also some assurances, from the Minnesota State Health Department tonight concerning that horrible brain-eating death of a 9-year old boy. The health department is investigating the Naegleria fowleri, as the amoeba responsible for the boy’s death. The […]

‘Happy ending to beginning’ of $2.5B Mars rover mission

By: Ryan Johnson, INFORUM MOORHEAD – While it was built with valid scientific goals in mind, the premise of the six-wheeled, 2,000-pound Curiosity rover and the engineering feat that landed it on Mars early Monday could strike some as more science fiction than reality. “We have landed a nuclear-powered truck on another world,” said Juan Cabanela, astronomy professor at Minnesota […]