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

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on South Carolina’s ...

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

As they grieve their son, the boy's parents said they were stunned to learn South Carolina, like most other U.S. states, has ...

Officials with the Centers for Disease Control say climate change raising freshwater temperatures may contribute to ...

The Carrs were joined by their attorney, Tyler Bailey, who said the family has not been contacted by any public health or ...

Could a trip to the lake forever alter your life? For a South Carolina family, a happy Fourth of July on Lake Murray became unimaginable tragedy after their 12-year-old son, Jaysen Carr, died from ...

Naegleria fowleri, the rare, but deadly, so-called brain-eating amoeba, can be found in Pennsylvania's waters.

The family of a 12-year-old South Carolina boy who died after contracting a rare infection associated with Naegleria fowleri ...

The parents of Jaysen Carr -- the 12-year-old Hand Middle School student who passed away from a brain-eating amoeba known as ...