COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Twelve-year-old Jaysen Carr died last week after contracting a rare but deadly organism known as Naegleria fowleri while swimming July 18 in Lake Murray in Columbia, South Carolina, People Magazine reported, marking the state’s first reported case since 2016.

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

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