A GoFundMe has been set up to support the family of the 12-year-old from South Carolina and has so far raised more than ...

A fatal case of brain-eating amoeba has been reported in South Carolina, with health officials advising swimmers to take ...

A 12-year-old boy died after he contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a South Carolina lake. Jaysen Carr came ...

Naegleria fowleri is also called the "brain-eating amoeba" because of its ability to infect the brain and destroy tissue. The ...

A child in South Carolina tragically died from a brain-eating amoeba infection after swimming in a local lake. Naegleria ...

Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old from the city of Columbia, died on July 18 after developing an infection associated with Naegleria ...

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

The Naegleria fowleri is a free-living amoeba, which is a one-celled organism that thrives in warm fresh water like lakes, ...

A patient in a South Carolina children’s hospital has died of a brain-eating amoeba, according to the facility.

The South Carolina Department of Public Health confirmed to our sister station, WIS, Monday evening that there is a case of a ...

A person has died after they contracted an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba at a South Carolina lake recently, ...

Officials previously announced that a person died from a brain-eating amoeba but could not verify where they were exposed to it.