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

A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The ...

The parents of Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old who died July 18 from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake ...

A lawyer for the family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr said he died on July 18 after contracting a deadly infectious amoeba while ...

The family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr is speaking out about the child's recent passing from a brain-eating amoeba in an ...

My son was a very smart individual. If he had one warning, he would have thought swimming in the lake was a bad idea," the ...

A state environmental official said this week the state doesn't test freshwater bodies of water for deadly “brain-eating” ...

The family spoke in front of the media for the first time Tuesday, calling on state agencies to test fresh bodies of water ...

Concerns are growing around the Carolinas after a child died of a deadly brain amoeba in the midlands area of South Carolina.

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

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