The infection destroys brain tissue, which is why the infection is commonly referred to as a brain-eating amoeba.

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

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

Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular ...

Tyler Bailey, a Columbia attorney, has been hired to conduct an independent investigation into the patient's death.

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

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 ...

The South Carolina Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday that the person who died from a brain-eating amoeba was ...

The family of 12-year-old Hand Middle School Student Jaysen Carr announced he died from a brain-eating amoeba infection contracted at the popular Midlands lake.

The family of a 12-year-old boy who recently died of Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba, has hired an attorney.