Prisma Richland Children’s Hospital in Columbia has confirmed that a patient treated at their facility has died from a ...

"Greater than 97% of cases that have occurred since the 1960's have been fatal. There have only been four cases in the U.S.

The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed a case of Naegleria fowleri, also known as the ...

Rare cases of Naegleria fowleri can result in a severe infection in the brain, with infection fatal in around 95% of cases.

Each year in the UK, 30,000 children under the age of five are hospitalised with RSV and it causes around 30 infant deaths.

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