A TWELVE-year-old boy passed away after being infected by a brain-eating parasite while swimming in a lake. Jaysen Carr died on July 18 after swimming in Lake Murray, a large reservoir in the US ...

Tyler Bailey, a Columbia attorney, has been hired to conduct an independent investigation into the patient's death.

A 12-year-old boy, Jaysen Carr, tragically died in South Carolina, US after his brain was infected by a parasite called ...

Most people who come into contact with Naegleria fowleri never get sick. The amoeba can only infect a person when ...

Nationwide, there have only been 167 cases of Naegleria fowleri in the past 62 years — but only four of those survived, ...

Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water ...

A child in South Carolina has died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as brain-eating amoeba.

A GoFundMe has been set up to support the family of the 12-year-old from South Carolina and has so far raised more than ...

A 12-year-old boy has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake over the July Fourth weekend ...

A fatal case of brain-eating amoeba has been reported in South Carolina, with health officials advising swimmers to take ...

The infection destroys brain tissue, which is why the infection is commonly referred to as a brain-eating amoeba.

The state Department of Public Health presumes a fatal case of brain-eating amoeba came from Lake Murray, but risk of such ...