A child in Nebraska is suspected to have died from a rare case of brain-eating amoeba, health officials said Wednesday. If confirmed, it will be the first known death from Naegleria fowleri in the ...

Jaysen Carr, 12, of Columbia, S.C., died on July 18 after he contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming at a lake He was a student athlete at Hand Middle School and a member of a school ...