A rare brain-eating amoeba infection killed a 12-year-old child in after he swam in a South Carolina freshwater lake. Health ...

A 12-year-old South Carolina boy has died after being infected by a rare, brain-eating amoeba found in freshwater, his family ...

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

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, ...

A social media post by the department says that officers, investigators and divers are searching for a missing boater in Lake ...

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A search is currently ongoing for a missing boater on Lake Murray in Saluda County. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said on X (formerly Twitter) that initial ...

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

Funeral services for a 12-year-old Columbia-area middle school student who died July 18 after contracting a rare amoeba from ...

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

A Columbia family is mourning the loss of their young son, who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba from ...