Flesh-eating bacteria has been all over the news lately. We've reported on three different people who've been hospitalized over the last few weeks after going into waters along the Texas coast and ...

The count of deaths from a rare, flesh-eating bacteria in Louisiana has reached five, state health officials said. Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium that occurs in warm coastal waters, and doctors say ...

A fifth person has died after contracting a flesh-eating bacterium called Vibrio vulnificus. Health officials in Louisiana announced last week that a fifth person died from the bacteria and that ...

The Florida Department of Health has confirmed a case of Vibrio vulnificus, commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria, in Nassau County. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the state this ...

Three more cases of Vibrio vulnificus, also called "flesh-eating" bacteria, have been reported in Florida according to Health Department data. The new cases were reported in Citrus, Collier and Lee ...

Four people in Florida have died this year from bacterial infections that can cause “flesh-eating” wounds, the state’s health department reported this month. The culprit, the bacteria Vibrio ...