{"id":1977,"date":"2026-08-26T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:41:25","slug":"brain-eating-amoeba-case-confirmed-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/brain-eating-amoeba-case-confirmed-in-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain-eating amoeba case confirmed in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1667\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-091228.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1667\" title=\"naegleria fowleri\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-091228-300x225.png\" alt=\"naegleria fowleri\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-091228-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-23-091228.png 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">naegleria fowleri<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After a recent case of brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina, Caitlin Ashbaugh from WYFF4 came to talk to Dr. Jillian McKeon about the amoeba, naegleria fowleri. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/brain-eating-amoeba-case-south-carolina\/65474393\">Read more at WYFF4.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. McKeon also had a chance to speak with Fox Carolina. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2025\/07\/23\/clemson-researchers-study-treatment-brain-eating-amoeba\/\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a recent case of brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina, Caitlin Ashbaugh from WYFF4 came to talk to Dr. Jillian McKeon about the amoeba, naegleria fowleri. Read more at WYFF4. Dr. McKeon also had a chance to speak with Fox Carolina. Read more here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}