In 1996, a previously healthy 5-year-old girl presented to a local urgent care clinic with a 3-day history of fever and a progressive, generalized vesicular rash, diagnosed as varicella with a known ...

A Queensland woman who nearly lost her leg to a flesh-eating infection is warning others to take rashes seriously as she ...

A Florida man was left fighting for his life after contracting a flesh-eating disease during his Bahamian vacation. Brian Roush, 62, and his girlfriend, Tonia Buford Stinson, travelled to the ...

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria nicknamed "flesh-eating," has been found in coastal North Carolina and Florida. The bacteria can be contracted by eating undercooked shellfish or through an open wound ...

HOLLAND, Mich. — A Holland resident is speaking out after surviving necrotizing fasciitis, a rare but often fatal bacterial infection she contracted following a routine ovarian surgery in 2023. Brenna ...

A Pensacola woman believes she contracted the flesh-eating bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, after swimming in Santa Rosa Sound with a small cut on her leg. Vibrio bacteria live in coastal waters and are ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just ...