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Learn what you need to know about the brain-eating amoeba, its latest victim and other dangers in our region's lakes.
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Parents want others to know the danger from the brain-eating amoeba As he sat in an intensive care hospital room with his son, Clarence Carr couldn’t help but think of all the people on the lake.
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Two weeks after spending the 4th of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water.
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 up the nose, like ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...
Parents want others to know the danger from the brain-eating amoeba As he sat in an intensive care hospital room with his son, Clarence Carr couldn't help but think of all the people on the lake.
Amoeba Death Clarence and Ebony Carr hug as they talk about the death of their son from a brain-eating amoeba he got at a popular South Carolina lake on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in Columbia, S.C ...
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 ...
The family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr is speaking out about the child's recent death from a brain-eating amoeba in an effort to raise public awareness of the often fatal brain infection caused by ...