The amoeba entered his brain through his nose, possibly when he jumped into Lake Murray, near Columbia. The CDC said 167 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South ...

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

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

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

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday that the body was located in Saluda County after dive teams used sonar technology to recover it.

The state Department of Public Health presumes a fatal case of brain-eating amoeba came from Lake Murray, but risk of such ...

The parents of a child who died after contracting a deadly amoeba, reportedly in Lake Murray, have released his name as they ...

The Carr family, mourning the loss of their 12-year-old son, Jaysen, to a brain-eating amoeba, is calling for significant ...