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

A 12-year-old boy has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake over the July Fourth weekend.

Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old from the city of Columbia, died on July 18 after developing an infection associated with Naegleria ...

Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a ...

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 ...

Officials previously announced that a person died from a brain-eating amoeba but could not verify where they were exposed to ...

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 ...

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The parents of a South Carolina boy who died from an amoeba spoke publicly for the first time on ...

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

The parents of Jaysen Carr are calling for freshwater testing and public alerts after their son died of a brain infection ...