Bill Sullivan is a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Indiana University. Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it's a growing – and potentially fatal ...

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

Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing – and potentially fatal – threat to people. In September 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Vibrio vulnificus is one of the bacteria that can cause what’s commonly known as a flesh-eating infection. Necrotizing fasciitis eats away at the skin, muscles, nerves, fat and blood vessels ...

At least three people have died after contracting infections from a rare flesh-eating bacteria that can be caused by eating raw seafood such as oysters or swimming in warm saltwater, New York and ...

Vibrio vulnificus, known as the flesh-eating bacteria, has killed 5 people in Florida this year, according to the state's health department. Overall, at least a dozen people have died from the ...

The deaths occurred in July and August, health officials say. At least six people have died on the East Coast this summer after being infected with "flesh-eating" bacteria in warming waters.

Authorities are investigating the death of a New Yorker in connection to the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus linked to saltwater and raw shellfish exposures. The case of vibriosis ...

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 ...

At least three people have died after contracting infections from a rare flesh-eating bacteria that can be caused by eating raw seafood such as oysters or swimming in warm saltwater, New York and ...