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A patient at Prisma Health Children's Hospital Midlands in South Carolina died after being infected with Naegleria fowleri, a ...
The parents of Jaysen Carr are calling for freshwater testing and public alerts after their son died of a brain infection ...
Stories of brain-eating amoebas and flesh-eating bacteria are frightening. Here's what swimmers in North Carolina should know ...
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 ...
Rare cases of Naegleria fowleri can result in a severe infection in the brain, with infection fatal in around 95% of cases.
The family of a 12-year-old South Carolina boy who died after contracting a rare infection associated with Naegleria fowleri ...
The infection destroys brain tissue, which is why the infection is commonly referred to as a brain-eating amoeba.
A fter the death of six-year-old Jaysen Carr from a rare brain-eating amoeba, a South Carolina lawmaker is taking legislative ...
A South Carolina family is mourning the loss of their young son, who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba from ...
Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.
Rare brain-eating amoeba killed South Carolina's 12-year-old boy after spending a joyful Fourth of July in a popualar lake ...
Naegleria fowleri, the rare, but deadly, so-called brain-eating amoeba, can be found in Pennsylvania's waters.