CLAIM: A letter from Alabama Power, an electric utility company, states the company has taken samples from Lewis Smith Lake and found dangerous levels of "flesh eating bacteria." Due to this, Alabama ...

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The ominous strings of the Jaws theme may give you chills, but public health officials warn of a bigger beach threat: Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria in warm coastal waters.

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

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

The fly will land and larvae, which could number in the hundreds. Those larvae will burrow into the cow, eating the flesh until the cow dies. According to the Texas Tribune, experts say the fly ...

Congress has found a rare point of unity: stopping U.S. cattle from getting swarmed by flesh-eating flies coming from Mexico. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing forward the STOP Screwworms ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins shut down the US-Mexico border for live cattle, horse, and bison imports due to the threat of a the parasite known as the new world screwworm.

Federal and state officials, and farmers and ranchers across the country, have been increasingly concerned about the possible presence of a flesh-eating parasite called the New World screwworm.

Last week, the United States halted all cattle trade with Mexico to stop the spread of a parasitic flesh-eating fly known as the New World screwworm. According US Department of Agriculture (USDA ...