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

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

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

Attorney and Columbia City Councilman Tyler Bailey was hired by the family to independently investigate the child's death.

Jaysen Carr, 12, died just weeks after swimming in Lake Murray in South Carolina. Now, his family is pushing for clearer ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Funeral services for a 12-year-old Columbia-area middle school student who died July 18 after contracting a rare amoeba from ...

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

Prisma Heath Richland Children's Hospital in Columbia confirmed Tuesday that a patient treated at their facility died from ...