A Columbia family is mourning the loss of their young son, who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba from ...

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

The Naegleria fowleri is a free-living amoeba, which is a one-celled organism that thrives in warm fresh water like lakes, ...

A patient in a South Carolina children’s hospital has died of a brain-eating amoeba, according to the facility.

The family of a boy who died after contracting an amoeba in a South Carolina lake has come forward with a public statement.