DEAR DOCTORS: We live in Florida, and we keep seeing on the news about people dying from flesh-eating bacteria you can get when you go swimming. It seems like it’s happening a lot more often than it ...

(NEXSTAR) – In the wake of multiple cases of flesh-eating bacteria in Florida, some people may be wondering what they can do to protect themselves while on vacation or just enjoying a day at the local ...

A health alert has been issued after Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacterium, was detected in coastal waters.

Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called 'flesh-eating bacteria,' hits another Florida county, but it's also found in NC. Here's what people should know.

NEW ORLEANS -- Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just ...

The pain, said Genevieve Gallagher, was "unbelievable." The Florida woman nearly lost her life and her leg to the flesh-eating bacteria known as Vibrio vulnificus, or Vibrio, after swimming with her ...

For the second time in a week a new case of Vibrio vulnificus, a horrifying infection also called "flesh-eating" bacteria, ...

A man had to have his forearm amputated after raw seafood infected him with bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus, according to a recent case report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Vibrio ...

A young father who lost his eye after contracting a rare infection is suing the hospital that treated him, alleging it ignored his requests to investigate his condition properly.

We live in Florida, and we keep seeing on the news about people dying from flesh-eating bacteria you can get when you go ...

Q We live in Florida, and we keep seeing news about people dying from the flesh-eating bacteria you can get when swimming. It seems like it’s happening more often than it used to. Why is it so hard to ...