Eleven people have been infected with Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "fleshing-eating" bacteria, and four of them died, ...

Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," can have horrifying and even fatal effects on humans. Symptoms, how ...

Florida leads the nation in cases of Vibrio vulnificus — a rare but deadly flesh-eating bacteria that thrives in warm, ...

Vibrio vulnificus is one of the bacteria that can cause what’s commonly known as a flesh-eating infection.

According to the Chinese news outlet The Paper, the incident occurred when the man was preparing green crabs at his home. He ...

These fast-spreading infections usually involve multiple types of gram-positive bacteria. Necrotizing fasciitis –or flesh-eating disease–is the best known of these infections.

Researchers have developed a compound that is effective against common bacteria that can lead to rare, dangerous illnesses.

Cases of ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria rose in Florida this year. Here’s what to know. Vibrio bacteria sickened dozens of people following Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and the microbes’ range ...

A rare species of so-called “flesh-eating” bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater has been linked to five deaths in Florida this year.

An outbreak of a flesh-eating bacteria along Texas’ Gulf Coast has infected nearly a dozen people, authorities warned. Officials in Galveston County said 11 cases of vibrio infections have been ...

A drug tested against flesh-eating bacteria reduced the size of infectious ulcers and sped up healing in mice.

Alert issued with flesh-eating bacteria cases surging in Galveston The dangerous bacteria are more prevalent in the summer when coastal waters are warmer.