Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri can lead to symptoms including fever, seizures, hallucinations and death.

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Rare cases of Naegleria fowleri can result in a severe infection in the brain, with infection fatal in around 95% of cases.

Naegleria fowleri, the rare, but deadly, so-called brain-eating amoeba, can be found in Pennsylvania's waters.

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The parents of Jaysen Carr, a 12-year-old who died July 18 from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake ...

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Nationwide, there have only been 167 cases of Naegleria fowleri in the past 62 years — but only four of those survived, ...

The case was initially confirmed the week of July 7, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.

The infection destroys brain tissue, which is why the infection is commonly referred to as a brain-eating amoeba.