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

Jaysen Carr died nearly two weeks after he spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat in Lake Murray, west of ...

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 ...

Jaysen Carr, 12, died nearly two weeks after he spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat in Lake Murray, west of Columbia, South Carolina - now his heartbroken dad has spoken out ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Brain-damaging infections, which are caused by tapeworm eggs accidentally ingested through undercooked food or fruits and ...

The case was initially confirmed the week of July 7, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.