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

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

Clarence Carr and his wife Ebony of South Carolina spoke about their 12-year-old Jaysen Carr, who died from brain-eating ...

The parents of Jaysen Carr, who died July 18 from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake, say warnings ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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