New analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds the flesh-eating disease Leishmaniasis ... U.S. states are home to the sand flies that transmit the disease.

The flies cause myiasis, an infection of flesh-eating maggots that burrow into the skin of living animals, causing serious and often fatal damage, Reuters reported. The U.S. Department of ...

A Florida man nearly lost his leg from a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection that developed after he was bitten by a human while breaking up a family brawl, according to a report by NBC News.