Aimee Copeland contracted the rare flesh-eating bacteria in 2012 after a swimming ... line into the Little Tallapoosa River in Carrollton, Georgia. Copeland received 22 surgical staples to close ...

"We want to empower people to do this locally where they live," Aimee Copeland tells PEOPLE In the 14 years since Aimee Copeland’s life changed forever after a rare necrotizing fasciitis ...

A decade-long study of over 35 million people across ten states in the United States has revealed that invasive group A ...

Each summer, as the waters along the U.S. coastline heat up, cases of flesh-eating bacteria start to grow. The bacteria — which can be deadly, depending on the type — thrives in water with ...

A decade-long study of around 35 million Americans in 10 states has found that group A streptococcus infections have more ...

MICHAEL SMITH: Flesh eating, bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico? Well, it's technically not flesh, eating, and thankfully, rare. But it's still a scary story. The bacteria vibrio, vulnificus can kill ...