A lawyer for the family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr said he died on July 18 after contracting a deadly infectious amoeba while ...

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

The amoeba can be found in warm freshwater but occasionally has been detected in tap water. The South Carolina health agency ...

Officials with the Centers for Disease Control say climate change raising freshwater temperatures may contribute to conditions that allow the amoeba to thrive.

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

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 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The ...

Ever tear a drumstick off that rotisserie chicken for the drive home? We won't judge, we just want to know your go-to grocery ...

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

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

Jaysen Carr died nearly two weeks after he spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat in Lake Murray, west of Columbia. After returning from the lake, his parents said the boy complained ...