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

Jaysen Carr died after contracting a rare infection brought on by a freshwater amoeba reportedly in a South Carolina lake.

The parents of Jaysen Carr -- the 12-year-old Hand Middle School student who passed away from a brain-eating amoeba known as ...

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

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

Jaysen Carr, 12, died a week after a trip to a North Carolina lake where a water-based amoeba entered his brain through his ...

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The parents of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr, who died earlier this month after contracting a rare brain-eating ...

Nationwide, there have only been 167 cases of Naegleria fowleri in the past 62 years — but only four of those survived, ...

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