As they grieve their son, the boy's parents are speaking out to try to prevent anyone else from losing a child.

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

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Jaysen Carr died nearly two weeks after he spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat in Lake Murray, west of Columbia. After returning from the lake, his parents said the boy complained ...

Officials with the Centers for Disease Control say climate change raising freshwater temperatures may contribute to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on South Carolina’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The amoeba can be found in warm freshwater but occasionally has been detected in tap water. The South Carolina health agency ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Public Health (SCDPH) is confirming a case of brain-eating amoeba in South ...