Death of Jaysen Carr Inspires Proposed South Carolina Bill

Death of Jaysen Carr inspires proposed South Carolina bill

After Jaysen Carr's death, Rep. Johnson is proposing a bill for better water safety, ensuring reports and tests to prevent waterborne amoeba infections.

Parents want more warnings after a brain-eating amoeba killed their boy on a South Carolina lake - The Sacramento Observer

By Jeffrey Collins | The Associated Press  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and entered his brain through his nose. His parents had no clue the brain-eating amoeba, whose scientific name is Naegleria fowleri, even existed in Lake Murray, just 15 miles (24 kilometers) west o…