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 ...

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

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

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

Jaysen Carr died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after swimming in Lake Murray. His family says no state officials have ...

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

A young person in South Carolina has died after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba at Lake Murray in the Columbia area.

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

On Tuesday, officials confirmed that a pediatric patient has died from Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating ...