Boy dies from brain-eating amoeba after swimming in US lake
A 12-year-old South Carolina boy has died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba found in freshwater, his family's attorney said.
High school student Jaysen Carr died July 18 after swimming in Lake Murray, a large reservoir near Columbia, South Carolina, according to a Facebook post from the Law Offices of Tyler D. Bailey.
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