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

The Carr family is urging state officials to take action to prevent future tragedies and raise awareness about the hidden ...

The Carr family is urging state officials to take action to prevent future tragedies and raise awareness about the hidden ...

Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old student at Hand Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina, died on July 18 from a rare infection of the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, which health officials say likely came from ...

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday that the body was located in Saluda County after dive teams used sonar technology to recover it.

The family spoke in front of the media for the first time Tuesday, calling on state agencies to test fresh bodies of water ...

The amoeba entered his brain through his nose, possibly when he jumped into Lake Murray, near Columbia. The CDC said 167 ...

Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular ...

The parents of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr, who died earlier this month after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba, spoke ...

The parents of Jaysen Carr -- the 12-year-old Hand Middle School student who passed away from a brain-eating amoeba known as ...