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

The family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr is speaking out about the child's recent passing from a brain-eating amoeba in an effort to raise public awareness of the often fatal brain infection caused by ...

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

Naegleria fowleri, the rare, but deadly, so-called brain-eating amoeba, can be found in Pennsylvania's waters.

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 ...

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

"The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) was made aware of Naegleria fowleri in our state on the week of July 7.

Brain-eating amoebas have taken up residence in Tucson's water supply as recent tests have shown their presence in 12 wells. While the discovery of the killer amoeba, known as Naegleria fowleri ...

The family of a child who died on July 18 after contracting Naegleria fowleri in Lake Murray came forward on Thursday, ...