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 ...

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 Carolina lake. The brain-eating amoeba enters the body when water is forced ...

A child in South Carolina has died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as brain-eating amoeba.

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 ...

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Their 12-year-old son died after contracting the rare amoeba while spending the Fourth of July swimming and boating on a lake ...

Clarence and Ebony Carr join 'Fox & Friends' to discuss what happened leading up to the tragic passing of their son, Jaysen, ...

After Jaysen Carr's death, Rep. Jermaine Johnson said he wants to see changes in how the deadly infection is handled by state ...

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Jaysen Carr, 12, died July 18 from brain-eating amoeba infection after Lake Murray exposure, marking South Carolina's first case since 2016.

On Tuesday, officials confirmed that a pediatric patient in Columbia, South Carolina, died from Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba. The age of the patient was not released.