Boy, 12, dies from brain-eating amoeba
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Twelve-year-old Jaysen Carr died last week after contracting a rare but deadly organism known as Naegleria fowleri while swimming July 18 in Lake Murray in Columbia, South Carolina, People Magazine reported, marking the state’s first reported case since 2016.
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WYFF News 4 on MSNFuneral plans announced for 12-year-old boy who died of a brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina
Funeral plans have been announced for the 12-year-old boy in South Carolina who died of Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba.
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.