Type I: More than one type of bacteria causes type I necrotizing fasciitis. The responsible bacteria may include Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli (E. coli), and various other strains.

Leanne Passey says her 4-year-old daughter Reign was hospitalized due to necrotizing fasciitis, a rare flesh-eating bacteria that can be deadly in about one-in-five patients.

Necrotizing fasciitis is a skin infection caused by rare bacteria that enters the body through a break in the skin. From this opening, the bacteria aggressively attacks muscles and other organs ...

It was rare, flesh eating bacteria, also called necrotizing fasciitis. He needed an amputation. Bryson Crenshaw, 4, said his knee hurt. His parents thought he injured it playing.

Necrotizing fasciitis can cause swollen red skin at first, and later sepsis and death in some cases. A man died from a "flesh-eating" disease that he caught while chasing his dog into a pond.

A man in San Diego, California noticed a red spot on his arm after chasing his dog into a pond. It turned out to be a deadly case of necrotizing fasciitis or flesh-eating bacteria.

Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious infection that can lead to amputation and death. Symptoms include fever and chills, blisters, ulcers and black spots on the skin, and confusion, ...

Only around 0.4 people per 100,000 are infected to the point of necrotizing fasciitis each year in the U.S. CDC data shows that, since 2010, there were between 700 and 1,150 cases of necrotizing ...

A rare but horrific kind of infection might be on the rise. Gynecologists in the UK have begun to see an alarming increase in people with necrotizing fasciitis of the vulva, a.k.a. the “flesh ...