North Carolina is seeing an increase in Vibrio infections, with 59 cases and one death reported through July 31.

Cases of flesh-eating bacteria infections are rising across the Southeast, with North Carolina reporting 59 Vibrio infections ...

Researchers at the Hakai Institute have identified the culprit as a bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida, known as "V-peck" ...

Vibrio Variety In addition to long-term gradual growth caused by warming ocean temperatures, Vibriopopulations can experience temporary, explosive blooms of growth under favorable conditions.

Scientists have identified the bacteria behind a mysterious sea star die-off that devastated marine ecosystems across Oregon ...

Vibrio live freely in the water, concentrate in sediment and on plastics, and colonize the surfaces and guts of shellfish, fish and zooplankton. For those organisms, the bacteria can often be ...

A team led by researchers in British Columbia has solved the mystery of a gruesome disease that has killed billions of sea ...

Since 2013, billions of sea stars, an elegant ocean species commonly known as starfish that are a key part of the environment ...

The mass die-off, which began in 2013, saw sea star populations plunge and reshaped vital marine ecosystems in the U.S. and ...

Vibrio vulnificus is an opportunistic marine pathogen that can cause severe, sometimes fatal, infections in humans, ...

This summer, health authorities across the Gulf of Mexico have raised alarms over an unusual spike in deadly cases of Vibrio ...