12-year-old boy dies from brain-eating amoeba
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Richland Children’s Hospital in Columbia has confirmed that a patient treated at their facility has died from a brain-eating amoeba. According to the South Carolina Department of Health, they believe the patient was exposed to the rare, but deadly, organism at Lake Murray.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Saturday, the Midlands community rallied around the family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr. Carr was a student at Hand Middle School who died after being infected with an amoeba he contracted at Lake Murray earlier this month.
The family of 12-year-old Hand Middle School Student Jaysen Carr announced he died from a brain-eating amoeba infection contracted at the popular Midlands lake.