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

Summer is when families are most at risk for brain-eating amoebas. Infections are rare but can be deadly. What to know in ...

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

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

The amoeba entered his brain through his nose, possibly when he jumped into Lake Murray, near Columbia, South Carolina. The CDC said 167 cases of the infection have been reported in the U.S. between ...

There are evolutionary reasons why the immune system may have evolved to overreact in this way (panic attacks are another ...

A new study by WashU Medicine researchers found that, in mice, histamine-releasing immune cells act as gatekeepers that protect the brain from infection.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on South Carolina’s ...