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 ...

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

Their 12-year-old son died after contracting the rare amoeba while spending the Fourth of July swimming and boating on a lake ...

Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba that thrives in warm freshwater, is rarely contracted but nearly always fatal, according to the CDC.

Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old from the city of Columbia, died on July 18 after developing an infection associated with Naegleria ...

After Jaysen Carr's death, Rep. Jermaine Johnson said he wants to see changes in how the deadly infection is handled by state ...

Here are the school district start dates in South Carolina for the upcoming school year:July 21:AikenJuly 23: Edgefield July 24: Greenwood 50, 51, 52McCormick July 28: Florence 1MarlboroJuly 29 ...