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

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

The family of a 12-year-old South Carolina boy who died after contracting a rare infection associated with Naegleria fowleri ...

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

Most people who come into contact with Naegleria fowleri never get sick. The amoeba can only infect a person when ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The Naegleria fowleri is a free-living amoeba, which is a one-celled organism that thrives in warm fresh water like lakes, ...

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

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