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

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

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

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

The family of a child who died on July 18 after contracting Naegleria fowleri in Lake Murray came forward on Thursday, ...

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

The case was initially confirmed the week of July 7, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.

The family of a 12-year-old boy who recently died of Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba, has hired an attorney.

The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, thrives in warm freshwater during summer and causes a brain infection that is nearly always fatal.

Prisma Health Children's Hospital-Midlands in Columbia, South Carolina confirmed on July 21 that a child recently died from a ...