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

Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a ...

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 ...

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

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

Jaysen Carr, 12, died just weeks after swimming in Lake Murray in South Carolina. Now, his family is pushing for clearer ...

A South Carolina family is mourning the loss of their young son, who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba from ...

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

Prisma Heath Richland Children's Hospital in Columbia confirmed Tuesday that a patient treated at their facility died from ...