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

A young person in South Carolina has died after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba at Lake Murray in the Columbia area.

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

Prisma Health Children’s Hospital in South Carolina reported a fatal Naegleria fowleri infection, commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba. This microscopic organism thrives in warm freshwater, ...