Their 12-year-old son died after contracting the rare amoeba while spending the Fourth of July swimming and boating on a lake.

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

Dr. Linda Bell, a South Carolina State Epidemiologist, told WIS News 10 that there should not be widespread concern about Carr's diagnosis ...

Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and entered ...

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 ...

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

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

A patient at Prisma Health Children's Hospital Midlands in South Carolina died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, a ...

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

A pair of South Carolina parents have more questions than answers after their son contracted a brain-eating amoeba while ...

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