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 lawmaker plans a water safety bill after a child's tragic death from a brain-eating amoeba. COLUMBIA, S.C. — ...

Their 12-year-old son died after contracting the rare amoeba while spending the Fourth of July swimming and boating on a lake ...

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 ...

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

Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba that thrives in warm freshwater, is rarely contracted but nearly always fatal, according to the CDC.