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

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 ...

Canada Rinaldi left her bachelorette party in Dallas, Texas on a stretcher, after getting punched by a complete stranger.

ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) - The United States Department of Agriculture is suspending imports of cattle, horse and bison at the U.S.-Mexico border in efforts to combat the spread of the New World ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently suspended imports of cattle from Mexico, after new reports showed that a destructive pest called the New World Screwworm had moved north to the Mexican ...

They suspect that frequent exposure to meat-eating bacteria and other pathogens may ... the aggressive pathogen can eat away at living flesh. “If we could find the way that the beetles deal ...

Lawmakers are stepping up their efforts to keep the flesh-eating parasite out of the United States. “Very soon, people are going to know what a screwworm is because they can't barbecue on the ...

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Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist in Brazil, spent decades looking for bacteria in the soil that could act like fertilizer, boosting farmers' harvests. But she faced a lot of skepticism. "When I ...

The United States has suspended all animal imports from Mexico due to a parasitic fly that can produce flesh-eating maggots. New World screwworms are the cause of the indefinite suspension of ...