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

The state Department of Public Health presumes a fatal case of brain-eating amoeba came from Lake Murray, but risk of such ...

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

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Richland Children’s Hospital in Columbia has confirmed that a patient treated at their facility has ...

The parents of a child who died after contracting a deadly amoeba, reportedly in Lake Murray, have released his name as they ...

After a deadly brain eating amoeba killed a child after they came in contact with hit at lake murray there are questions ...

Prisma Heath Richland Children's Hospital in Columbia confirmed Tuesday that a patient treated at their facility died from ...

The family of 12-year-old Hand Middle School Student Jaysen Carr announced he died from a brain-eating amoeba infection ...

A young person in South Carolina has died after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba at Lake Murray in the Columbia area.

Brain-eating amoeba is commonly found in warm fresh waters such as lakes, rivers and hot springs. It also resides in poorly maintained or minimally chlorinated swimming pools, staying in these ...

The child is believed to have been exposed to the deadly organism while swimming in South Carolina's Lake Murray ...