The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) is warning people about a strain of flesh-eating bacteria that, while ...

In a new case report, doctors detail how a 74-year-old man lost most of his right leg to a Vibrio vulnificus infection.

Vibrio, a bacteria found in salt and brackish water, is contracted when wounds are exposed to water containing the bacteria ...

Just three days earlier, the man was otherwise healthy and active on the coast. But at one point when he jumped into the ...

A number of people in London have contracted so called "flesh-eating" disease, as part of a streptococcus outbreak in the city and surrounding areas. The outbreak was declared more than 18 months ago ...

After doing tests, they discovered I had necrotising fasciitis. I was so scared, because you can lose your limbs from it. "They discovered it came from the tools they'd used during surgery, they weren ...

Kelley Simmons from Norfolk in the UK was left using a wheelchair for nine years after giving birth when she caught the ...