A young person in South Carolina has died after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba at Lake Murray in the Columbia area.

LAKE MURRAY, S.C. (WBTV) - A person has died after they contracted an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba at a South ...

The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, thrives in warm freshwater during summer and causes a brain infection that is nearly always fatal.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Richland Children’s Hospital in Columbia has confirmed that a patient treated at their facility has ...

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

The amoeba--whose scientific name is Naegleria fowleri--can be found in warm freshwater but occasionally has been detected in ...

A person has died after being infected with a brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina, officials announced. A patient at Prisma ...

The South Carolina Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday that the person who died from a brain-eating amoeba was exposed to it at a Midlands lake.

The person in South Carolina contracted the infection from he Naegleria fowleri amoeba, commonly known as a brain-eating amoeba, after swimming in Lake Murray outside of Columbia, the state ...

A patient has died at a children’s hospital in South Carolina after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba, likely at a local ...

Someone in SC has been infected with Naegleria fowleri, which lives in warm freshwater lakes and rivers. Some inaccurately ...