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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

As the weather gets warmer and coastal waters heat up, it feels like the perfect time to bring your family to the beach. Unfortunately, with those rising water temperatures come a proliferation of ...

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 ...

What started as a simple scrape has turned into a medical nightmare for one Florida teen. After swimming at a park in Niceville, Florida, 17-year-old Joziah Thompson got what was initially a minor ...