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

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

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

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

A lawyer for the family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr said he died on July 18 after contracting a deadly infectious amoeba while ...

Nationwide, there have only been 167 cases of Naegleria fowleri in the past 62 years — but only four of those survived, ...

Barack Obama responds to Donald Trump's Russia "treason" threats Taxes on Social Security benefits were not eliminated ...

A patient at Prisma Health Children's Hospital Midlands in South Carolina died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, a ...

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Richland Children’s Hospital in Columbia has confirmed that a patient treated at their facility has ...

The South Carolina Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday that the person who died from a brain-eating amoeba was ...

Officials previously announced that a person died from a brain-eating amoeba but could not verify where they were exposed to it.