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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina's most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm ...

A North Carolina child who fell ill in early August after swimming in a private pond died Friday as a result of a rare brain infection caused by an amoeba in the water, the state's Department of ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The parents of a Louisiana man whose death in 2011 was linked to a rare brain-eating amoeba have settled their lawsuit against the manufacturers of two household devices that they ...

WACO, Texas (AP) — The mother of a New Jersey man who died of a rare "brain-eating amoeba" after visiting a Texas surf resort has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the water park. Health ...

ARLINGTON, Texas A Texas city has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last September after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a splash pad ...

A 14-year-old boy in India died Thursday from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba he contracted while swimming in contaminated water. The teen, named Midrul, had reportedly picked up the ...

A 71-year-old woman died from a brain-eating amoeba infection after cleaning her sinuses with unboiled tap water from an RV at a campground in Texas. The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, is rare but often ...