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What To Know About The 'Brain-Eating Amoeba' On The Rise In Lakes And Hot Springs As The Planet Warms Up

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 ...
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Brain-eating amoeba confirmed in S.C.: What you need to know

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - A patient in a South Carolina hospital died from a brain-eating infection, according to health officials. On Tuesday, Prisma Health Children’s Hospital confirmed it had a ...
The Boston Globe

Parents want more warnings after a brain-eating amoeba killed their boy on a South Carolina lake

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 ...
New York Post

Toddler with ‘illuminating smile’ dies from brain-eating amoeba at Arkansas country club’s splash pad

A toddler with an “illuminating smile” died from a brain-eating amoeba after playing at an Arkansas country club’s splash pad — the fifth such death in the US. Michael Alexander Pollock III, 16 months ...