A new genomic study out of Northern Europe has confirmed something coastal health officials have feared for years. The ...

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that thrives in warm coastal waters and can destroy human tissue within hours, killed ...

Cases of the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus typically rise in the summer months ...

New World screwworms are nearing the U.S. border, raising concerns about the parasite's return to American soil.

A mother is suing a Tampa group home, claiming that her son contracted flesh-eating bacteria while at the facility and had to ...

Cases of Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria, are on the rise in Florida. How many cases, deaths are reported annually ...

The summer travel season is opening against an unusually crowded backdrop of infectious‑disease concerns.

States are warning beachgoers about a summertime surge in infections from a frightening, flesh-eating bacteria found in ...

On a sweltering morning last July, Vernon Spear, a burly eighty-five-year-old with thinning gray hair, went to check a chicken-wire crab trap that was hanging from a dock in Cambridge, Maryland. Spear ...

A Florida teenager’s summer swim turned into a life-or-death struggle after he contracted a dangerous “flesh-eating” bacterial infection. 17-year-old Joziah Thompson caught a case of Vibrio vulnificus ...

Vibrio vulnificus, a deadly bacterium, is spreading in US waters as federal disease surveillance is reduced. Warming seas ...