Eleven people have contracted Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria, and four of them have died from it so far in 2025, according to the Florida Department of Health. The deaths ...

MARK Brooks was left fighting for his life after a sore throat triggered a flesh-eating disease with a 20 per cent mortality ...

The reported Vibrio vulnificus cases reported in Florida in 2025 were down dramatically from last year. Here's what to know.

Eleven people have contracted Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "fleshing-eating" bacteria, and four of them have died from it so far in 2025, according to the Florida Department of Health. The deaths ...

A bacterial infection that can cause “flesh-eating” disease is becoming a bigger problem in the U.S.—and climate change is at least partly to blame. Several states along the Gulf Coast and Eastern ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- A Florida man has been hospitalized after contracting a life-threatening flesh-eating bacteria while fishing out in the Gulf of Mexico. ABC affiliate WFTS reports Mike Walton is being ...

In the wake of multiple case of flesh-eating bacteria in Florida, some may be wondering what they can do to protect ...

MIAMI -- A 77-year-old woman was infected by flesh-eating bacteria and died nearly two weeks after she fell and scraped her leg while walking on a Florida beach, her family said Monday. Wade Fleming ...

WHEN Michelle Velazquez woke up one morning with a sore throat, she put it down to a raucous girls’ weekend away for her birthday. “I thought maybe I’d partied too much and that I must be getting ...

PILOT ROCK, Oregon (KTRK) -- A mother in Oregon lost her child to a rare flesh-eating bacteria, and now she's fighting to raise awareness in hopes it doesn't happen to anyone else. Sara Hebard's son, ...