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

The identity of the South Carolina resident who was the victim of a recent, fatal “brain-eating amoeba” discovery has been ...

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

A 12-year-old boy in South Carolina has died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba, the same infection linked to the deaths of a Texas woman earlier this year and a 3-year-old in Arlington in ...

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

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

State health officials have confirmed a case of Naegleria fowleri, or brain-eating amoeba, in South Carolina the week of July ...

Dr. Anna-Kathryn Burch, a pediatric infectious disease physician in South Carolina, said infections with the Naegleria ...

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

The infection destroys brain tissue, which is why the infection is commonly referred to as a brain-eating amoeba.

A rare brain-eating amoeba infection killed a 12-year-old child in after he swam in a South Carolina freshwater lake. Health ...

Rare cases of Naegleria fowleri can result in a severe infection in the brain, with infection fatal in around 95% of cases.