A heartbroken father has issued a warning after his son died after swimming in a popular spot in South Carolina. A family has ...

Here’s a chilling fact that will make youthink twice before your next summer swim:Naegleria fowleri, the so-called “brain-eating amoeba,” has killed more than 160 people in the U.S. over the past 60 ...

The amoeba entered his brain through his nose, possibly when he jumped into Lake Murray, near Columbia, South Carolina. The CDC said 167 cases of the infection have been reported in the U.S. between ...

Rare brain-eating amoeba killed South Carolina's 12-year-old boy after spending a joyful Fourth of July in a popualar lake infected by Naegleria Fowleri organism.

Jaysen Carr, 12, died just weeks after swimming in Lake Murray in South Carolina. Now, his family is pushing for clearer ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on South Carolina’s ...

The parents of Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old who died July 18 from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake ...

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