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

The case was initially confirmed the week of July 7, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.

A 12-year-old boy died after he contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a South Carolina lake. Jaysen Carr came ...

The infection destroys brain tissue, which is why the infection is commonly referred to as a brain-eating amoeba.

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

The family of 12-year-old Hand Middle School Student Jaysen Carr announced he died from a brain-eating amoeba infection ...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Twelve-year-old Jaysen Carr died last week after contracting a rare but deadly organism known as ...

Richland One student Jaysen Carr has been identified as the child who died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba earlier ...

A GoFundMe has been set up to support the family of the 12-year-old from South Carolina and has so far raised more than ...

The family of a 12-year-old boy who recently died of Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba, has hired ...

Funeral services for a 12-year-old Columbia-area middle school student who died July 18 after contracting a rare amoeba from ...

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