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 ...

Barry Keoghan says he suffered from a flesh-eating bacteria after getting hit with a bottle, which left a cut. (Getty Images) Barry Keoghan has revealed that he could have died after his arm ...

Dr. Norman Beatty, of the infectious diseases division at the University of Florida, said that vibrio vulnificus — often ...

MICHAEL SMITH: Flesh eating, bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico? Well, it's technically not flesh, eating, and thankfully, rare. But it's still a scary story. The bacteria vibrio, vulnificus can kill ...

NAPLES, Fla. − Florida has seen a surge of flesh-eating bacteria cases in recent weeks after parts of the state were inundated with heavy rain and flooding due to back-to-back hurricanes ...

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.

How quickly can you solve it? Play now! Necrotizing fasciitis — commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria — quickly kills the body's soft tissue found around muscles, nerves, fat, and blood ...