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

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

Most people who come into contact with Naegleria fowleri never get sick. The amoeba can only infect a person when ...

The family of a 12-year-old South Carolina boy who died after contracting a rare infection associated with Naegleria fowleri ...

Jaysen Carr's parents had no idea his headaches and nausea were being caused by an organism called naegleria fowleri, which ...

Jaysen Carr, 12, died a week after a trip to a North Carolina lake where a water-based amoeba entered his brain through his ...

A GoFundMe has been set up to support the family of the 12-year-old from South Carolina and has so far raised more than ...

The family spoke in front of the media for the first time Tuesday, calling on state agencies to test fresh bodies of water ...

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

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

The parents of Jaysen Carr are calling for freshwater testing and public alerts after their son died of a brain infection ...

Officials previously announced that a person died from a brain-eating amoeba but could not verify where they were exposed to ...