Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.

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

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

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

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

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

My son was a very smart individual. If he had one warning, he would have thought swimming in the lake was a bad idea," the ...

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

A state environmental official said this week the state doesn't test freshwater bodies of water for deadly “brain-eating” ...

Naegleria fowleri, the rare, but deadly, so-called brain-eating amoeba, can be found in Pennsylvania's waters.

Attorney and Columbia City Councilman Tyler Bailey was hired by the family to independently investigate the child’s death.