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

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.

Shaquil Aribuk from the Republic of Palau shares how he caught a flesh-eating bacteria that altered his physical appearance.

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