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 ...

The unnamed individual is currently in intensive care in Missouri after contracting a rare and usually deadly brain infection ...

A fatal case of brain-eating amoeba has been reported in South Carolina, with health officials advising swimmers to take ...

Naegleria fowleri is a one-celled organism that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explains is “often called the ...

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

or brain-eating amoeba, to have come from Lake Murray, the lake does not have a higher risk of infection compared to other freshwater bodies of water, The State reports. A GoFundMe fundraiser has been ...

Most of the deaths happened within five days of getting sick, according to the CDC. Lake Murray in South Carolina is seen in this photo on July 29, 2025, in Chapin, S.C. Credit: AP/Meg Kinnard ...

His parents had no clue the brain-eating amoeba, whose scientific name is Naegleria fowleri, even existed in Lake Murray, just 15 miles west of Columbia.

A funeral for Jaysen Carter, 12-year-old Lake Murray amoeba victim, has been scheduled in Columbia, SC. Check times and dates for public services.

More than 160 people are known to have died from the amoeba in the U.S. in the past 60 years. The boy's parents were unaware of the amoeba when they let their son swim in Lake Murray.