Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a ...

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.

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

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 ...

For Clarence and Ebony Carr, the Fourth of July was supposed to be a carefree day on Lake Murray with family and friends. But two weeks later, their 12-year-old son, Jaysen, was gone — the result of ...

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

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

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 ...

The South Carolina Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday that the person who died from a brain-eating amoeba was ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Richland Children’s Hospital in Columbia has confirmed that a patient treated at their facility has died from a brain-eating amoeba. According to the South Carolina Department ...