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

Two Connecticut residents died after being infected with the rare flesh-eating bacteria after swimming with open cuts in the Long Island Sound.

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

A rare flesh-eating bacteria has killed at least five people in Florida this year, as well as three in Connecticut and New York.

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.

Flesh-eating bacteria infections rise to 80 cases, 16 deaths with new Alachua fatality C. A. Bridges USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida 0:00 ...

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

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.