The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a chilling warning about a terrifying parasite that has now ... there was a risk of it returning. Florida saw a return in October of 2016, panicking ...

“It feels good,” she said. 12-Year-Old Girl Gets Life-Threatening Flesh-Eating Disease After Swimming at a Florida Beach Kylei, from Indiana, had only been in Destin with her family for a few ...

Shortly after Hurricane Helene’s torrential rains and storm surge subsided, Florida’s Department of Health had a new, but familiar, problem on their hands. They recorded an increase in reported cases ...

A decade-long study of around 35 million Americans in 10 states has found that group A streptococcus infections have more ...

A Florida man died on July 10 after eating a raw oyster at a Sarasota restaurant that was contaminated by the bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, which can cause flesh-eating disease, or necrotizing ...

I was misdiagnosed with HSV1 in my eye but after five different ophthalmologists and 2 cornea specialists visits, I was diagnosed with a very rare parasite in my eye called acanthamoeba keratitis ...

Leishmania mexicana is a unicellular eukaryotic parasite, and is one of the species of Leishmania that causes the disease Leishmaniasis. It is sometimes called the "flesh eating parasite" because of ...

A recent outbreak of a flesh-eating parasite known as the [New World screwworm](https://www.cdc.gov/myiasis/about-new-world-screwworm-myiasis/index.html) (Cochliomyia ...