Antibiotic resistance is considered one of the most urgent health threats of our time. Common bacteria such as E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus are evolving defenses against the drugs doctors rely on ...

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A bacteria that can cause necrotizing fasciitis — in which the infected flesh dies — keeps sickening people, especially in Florida and Louisiana. The Tallahassee Democrat, part of the USA TODAY ...

Another two people are dead and at least 22 more have been hospitalized because of a flesh-eating bacteria in Louisiana, state health officials confirmed. The reports involved Vibrio vulnificus ...

Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just like he had ...

Two people have died after eating oysters contaminated with flesh-eating bacteria, health officials confirmed, and others have been infected. Both of the fatal cases were traced to Louisiana-harvested ...

Eight years ago, 87 obese adolescents took part in a study to see whether fecal transfer (taking "good" gut bacteria from healthy donors and giving them in capsule form to people with a less healthy ...

Cases of the flesh-eating bacterium Vibrio vulnificus have risen to 22 in Louisiana, and an additional death linked to Louisiana oysters occurred in a Florida resident, according to the Louisiana ...