While most cases are in the southern part of the Eastern Seaboard, the flesh-eating bacteria vibrio is spreading north because of climate change, a new study found. Between 2017 and 2018 ...

She was diagnosed with the virulent Vibrio vulnificus, often called the “flesh-eating bacteria,” according to a GoFundMe set up by her friend, Anna Messina. Her body could not fight off the ...

Well, it's technically not flesh, eating, and thankfully, rare. But it's still a scary story. The bacteria vibrio, vulnificus can kill someone within 48 hours. It lives in warm sea water.

The CDC says there are 12 species of vibrio, and one is known to be a flesh-eating bacteria. "She lanced it, removed the debris from in there, and then they gave me an antibiotic shot and then ...

He went to the emergency room, where a doctor informed him he had contracted Vibrio, a deadly flesh-eating bacteria that lurks in seawater and estuaries. 'It's maybe as if someone had driven a ...

As of October 25, 2024, there have been 77 cases and 15 deaths, up from 46 cases and 11 deaths in 2023. Vibrio are a group of marine bacteria that thrive in warm, brackish waters—where fresh water ...

And there is a little bit of truth to that. Oysters can carry a scary flesh-eating bacteria called vibrio vulnificus. You can get it from oysters or from swimming in warm brackish water.

Januario Hospital. She had been infected with the potentially deadly “flesh-eating” bacteria Vibrio vulnificus: a distant, yet equally dangerous, cousin of the notorious V. cholerae.

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

A new study reveals a novel approach to mitigating tissue damage caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, the flesh-eating bacterium responsible for severe infections such as necrotizing fasciitis.

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 ...

However, if the bacteria enters the body through a wound, it can cause the much deadlier fulminant STSS. The "flesh-eating bacterium" can infect patients through wounds on the hands and feet ...