Richard Empson stands on an artificial right leg after his battle with vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria that shows ...

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

An 8-year-old boy was diagnosed with life-threatening Pott’s puffy tumour, an extreme side effect of a sinusitis infection ...

The most common way people swimming inland get sick is by swallowing the water. How much you consume matters: “If you swallow ...

And nose plugs (sometimes called clips ... This can help protect you from flesh-eating bacteria, Sullivan says. You should also cover any cuts, scrapes, or fresh tattoos or piercings with a ...

After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America.