Patient dies of brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina, hospital confirms

A patient in a South Carolina children's hospital has died of a brain-eating amoeba, according to the facility. 

In a news briefing Tuesday, Prisma Health Children's Hospital-Midlands confirmed the patient died of primary amebic meningoencephalitis, also known as PAM, a rare but often fatal brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri organism.

The hospital did not share any more details about the patient.