Dr. Anna-Kathryn Burch, a pediatric infectious disease physician in South Carolina, said infections with the Naegleria fowleri amoeba are "very devastating."

LAKE MURRAY, S.C. (WBTV) - A person has died after they contracted an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba at a South Carolina lake recently, officials said. Sister-station WIS confirmed through Prisma Health Children’s Hospital in Columbia on Tuesday that a patient had died after coming into contact with the Naegleria fowleri amoeba.

A young person in South Carolina has died after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba at Lake Murray in the Columbia area.