Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a ...

A lawyer for the family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr said he died on July 18 after contracting a deadly infectious amoeba while ...

A patient at Prisma Health Children's Hospital Midlands in South Carolina died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, a ...

A 12-year-old South Carolina boy has died after being infected by a rare, brain-eating amoeba found in freshwater, his family ...

Dr. Anna-Kathryn Burch, a pediatric infectious disease physician in South Carolina, said infections with the Naegleria ...

Brain-eating amoeba is commonly found in warm fresh waters such as lakes, rivers and hot springs. It also resides in poorly ...

A Columbia family is mourning the loss of their young son, who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba from ...

Clarence and Ebony Carr will address the media alongside their attorney Tyler Bailey outside the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services headquarters in Columbia.

State health officials have confirmed a case of Naegleria fowleri, or brain-eating amoeba, in South Carolina the week of July 7. It's the state's first confirmed case this year.

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

The amoeba can be found in warm freshwater but occasionally has been detected in tap water. The South Carolina health agency ...

A child has died from a brain-eating amoeba at Prisma Health Children's Hospital – Midlands in South Carolina.