A state environmental official said this week the state doesn't test freshwater bodies of water for deadly “brain-eating” ...

For Clarence and Ebony Carr, the Fourth of July was supposed to be a carefree day on Lake Murray with family and friends. But two weeks later, their 12-year-old son, Jaysen, was gone — the result of ...

A heartbroken father has issued a warning after his son died after swimming in a popular spot in South Carolina. A family has ...

The amoeba entered his brain through his nose, possibly when he jumped into Lake Murray, near Columbia, South Carolina. The CDC said 167 cases of the infection have been reported in the U.S. between ...

Jaysen Carr died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after swimming in Lake Murray. His family says no state officials have ...

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

My son was a very smart individual. If he had one warning, he would have thought swimming in the lake was a bad idea," the ...

The parents of Jaysen Carr, who died July 18 from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake, say warnings ...