A hospital patient who was infected with brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri in South Carolina has died. Health officials at Prisma Health Children's Hospital confirmed July 22 that they had a ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — One person has died in South Carolina after recently contracting a rare case of a brain-eating amoeba that occurs naturally in freshwater, state health officials have ...

A pediatric death from a "brain-eating amoeba" has been reported in South Carolina, according to health officials. Prisma Health Richland Hospital in Columbia publicly confirmed the death on July 22, ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – A deadly case of brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina is bringing renewed national attention to a test developed right here in Central Florida. The patient, a young boy, died earlier ...

UPDATE: Officials have since confirmed the person infected with the amoeba has died. Click here for an updated web story. COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Public Health (SCDPH) ...

The so called brain-eating amoeba, or Naegleria fowleri, killed a South Carolina boy early in July after swimming in a lake there. Here's what you need to know about this highly deadly pathogen that ...

The family of a 12-year-old boy who died after contracting a rare and deadly brain-eating amoeba in a South Carolina lake has come forward with a public statement, expressing heartbreak and urging ...

For years, scientists have known that people who use neti pots can become infected with a brain-eating amoeba if they use the wrong kind of water. On Wednesday, researchers linked a second kind of ...