A GoFundMe has been set up to support the family of the 12-year-old from South Carolina and has so far raised more than ...

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

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The family of a 12-year-old boy has identified him as the person who died from a brain-eating amoeba. Jaysen ...

Funeral plans have been announced for the 12-year-old boy in South Carolina who died of Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as ...

The family of a 12-year-old South Carolina boy who died of Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba, has shared their son's identity.

While the amoeba is commonly found in fresh water, infection is very rare. Only three cases were reported in South Carolina from 2010 to 2022. Infection is almost always fatal. Lake Murray does not ...

A patient at Prisma Health Children's Hospital Midlands in South Carolina died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, a ...

Dr. Anna-Kathryn Burch, a pediatric infectious disease physician in South Carolina, said infections with the Naegleria ...

A child in South Carolina has died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as brain-eating amoeba.

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

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