A young boy has died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba infection, leaving his family devastated. Woodrow Bundy, aged 2, died on July 19 from the infection, which his family thinks he contracted ...

There's nothing that taints a beautiful day at the lake quite like the concern of an amoeba that feasts on your brain. In July 2025, a child died in South Carolina after being infected by a deadly ...

As Americans find ways to cope with an unusually sweltering summer, many of them have taken to bodies of water to cool off. But at least two people who ventured to freshwater swimming holes this ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Grieving parents of a 12-year-old who died after contracting Naegleria Fowleri, an amoeba in Lake Murray, spoke out for the first time. The family spoke in front of the media ...

A Missouri resident has been infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba, possibly linked to water-skiing in the Lake of Ozarks. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) confirmed the ...

COLUMBIA — A Columbia couple is calling on the state to make systemic changes and immediately begin testing South Carolina freshwater bodies for the presence of an amoeba that fatally infected their ...

COLUMBIA — An infectious disease expert with MU Health Care said that while a severe brain infection caused by an amoeba is often deadly, it is extremely rare. Christian Rojas Moreno said the way to ...

A Missourian who contracted an amoeba that kills brain cells at the Lake of the Ozarks has died, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Wednesday. The Department of Mental Health ...

While health officials announced that they presume the amoeba in the fatal case of Naegleria fowleri, or brain-eating amoeba, to have come from Lake Murray, the lake does not have a higher risk of ...