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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 lawyer for the family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr said he died on July 18 after contracting a deadly infectious amoeba while ...
Most people who come into contact with Naegleria fowleri never get sick. The amoeba can only infect a person when ...
Clarence and Ebony Carr will address the media alongside their attorney Tyler Bailey outside the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services headquarters in Columbia.
Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.
A GoFundMe has been set up to support the family of the 12-year-old from South Carolina and has so far raised more than ...
A fatal case of brain-eating amoeba has been reported in South Carolina, with health officials advising swimmers to take ...
Nationwide, there have only been 167 cases of Naegleria fowleri in the past 62 years — but only four of those survived, ...
A patient at Prisma Health Children's Hospital Midlands in South Carolina died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, a ...
The Naegleria fowleri is a free-living amoeba, which is a one-celled organism that thrives in warm fresh water like lakes, ...