The infection destroys brain tissue, which is why the infection is commonly referred to as a brain-eating amoeba.

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

Tyler Bailey, a Columbia attorney, has been hired to conduct an independent investigation into the patient's death.

The state Department of Public Health presumes a fatal case of brain-eating amoeba came from Lake Murray, but risk of such ...

A 12-year-old South Carolina boy has died after being infected by a rare, brain-eating amoeba found in freshwater.

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

A young person in South Carolina has died after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba at Lake Murray in the Columbia area.

As they grieve their son, the boy's parents said they were stunned to learn South Carolina, like most other U.S. states, has ...

The South Carolina Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday that the person who died from a brain-eating amoeba was ...

Could a trip to the lake forever alter your life? For a South Carolina family, a happy Fourth of July on Lake Murray became unimaginable tragedy after their 12-year-old son, Jaysen Carr, died from ...