Public Health officials have confirmed a case of measles in a traveler who passed through Los Angeles International Airport while infectious earlier this month. County Department of Public Health ...

A Columbia family is mourning the loss of their young son, who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba from ...

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

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

Dr. Anna-Kathryn Burch, a pediatric infectious disease physician in South Carolina, said infections with the Naegleria fowleri amoeba are "very devastating." ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Richland Children’s Hospital in Columbia has confirmed that a patient treated at their facility has ...

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

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

"Our whole lives changed at that moment. I cried and felt the floor drop from below us," Jodi McNamara told Newsweek.