The family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr is speaking out about the child's recent death from a brain-eating amoeba in an effort to raise public awareness of the often fatal brain infection caused by ...

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 patient in a South Carolina children's hospital has died of a brain-eating amoeba, according to the facility. In a news briefing Tuesday, Prisma Health Children's Hospital-Midlands confirmed the ...

The person in South Carolina contracted the infection from he Naegleria fowleri amoeba, commonly known as a brain-eating amoeba, after swimming in Lake Murray outside of Columbia, the state capital… ...

South Carolina health officials confirm a rare case of Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba found in warm freshwater.

Local News Patient dies from brain-eating amoeba after possible exposure at Lake Murray Prisma Richland Children’s Hospital confirms a patient died from a brain-eating amoeba.

While health officials presume that recent fatal case of Naegleria fowleri, or brain-eating amoeba, came from Lake Murray, the lake is not at an elevated risk, the state said.

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

The Prisma Health Children's hospital has confirmed that one of their patients has died from a brain eating amoeba.

A person who officials believe was infected with a brain-eating amoeba from a South Carolina lake has died.