Imagine a tiny cut turning into a life-threatening ordeal. Along the coasts, a deadly flesh-eating bacteria is making this ...

Technically, it's inaccurate to call Vibrio vulnifus the “flesh-eating bacteria” because it kills, but does not eat tissue. The bacteria cannot penetrate intact skin, but must enter through ...

Skin wounds infected with Vibrio vulnificus typically develop blisters, abscesses and ulcers. Vibrio vulnificus is one of the bacteria that can cause what’s commonly known as a flesh-eating ...

Necrotizing fasciitis can progress quickly, producing ulcers, blisters, skin discoloration and pus. Treating flesh-eating bacteria is a race against time. Clinicians administer antibiotics ...

Vibrio vulnificus is described as a flesh-eating bacteria because it can lead to ... to dangerously low blood pressure and blistering skin lesions, health officials say. An open-wound infection ...

Calling it “flesh-eating bacteria” is inaccurate because (1) it kills tissue, but does not eat it; and (2) it cannot penetrate intact skin, but must enter through an existing break in the skin.

The case of vibriosis, a rare but potentially fatal bacterial infection that can cause skin breakdown ... carry the bacteria, officials added. 'It’s expanding': Deadly flesh-eating bacteria ...

flesh-eating bacteria that thrives in warm seas and brackish water. Since the beginning of July, four people in the greater New York area have been infected with the bacteria, including three who ...

[Related: These flesh-eating bacteria are finding new beaches to call ... and fought off the infection faster. Damaged areas of skin also appeared to heal quicker post-infection.

Susan Sztybel had opened her kitchen cupboard to grab two wine glasses for her and her partner when one fell out and smashed ...