ORLANDO, Fla. – A deadly case of brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina is bringing renewed national attention to a test developed right here in Central Florida. The patient, a young boy, died earlier ...

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 South Carolina hospital patient died from Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, likely contracted at Lake Murray. Infection occurs when the amoeba enters the nose and travels to the brain, often ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — One person has died in South Carolina after recently contracting a rare case of a brain-eating amoeba that occurs naturally in freshwater, state health officials have ...

Composed of a single cell, amoeba seem harmless enough: They look like playful critters waltzing under the spotlight of a microscope until they come upon a group of bacteria. Then, these previously ...

The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. The Missouri health department says this is only the state's third case on record, but ...

The family of a 12-year-old boy who died in South Carolina this month have confirmed his cause of death to be an infection associated with Naegleria fowleri, more commonly referred to as a ...

An unidentified person in Arizona came down with an unknown illness that initially caused officials to suspect a diagnosis of Naegleria fowleri — commonly referred to as “brain-eating” amoeba — ...