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

Summer is when families are most at risk for brain-eating amoebas. Infections are rare but can be deadly. What to know in.

While Vibrio vulnificus thrives in brackish water, freshwater presents a different but equally rare threat: Naegleria fowleri ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The child is believed to have been exposed to the deadly organism while swimming in South Carolina's Lake Murray ...

The family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr made a public statement on Thursday, revealing that their child died after contact with ...

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

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

An extreme heat warning was in effect from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, for portions of Northeast and Southeast Louisiana, as dangerously hot conditions with heat index values between 111 ...