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 ...

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 ...

(NewsNation) — Two people have died in Louisiana after contracting flesh-eating bacteria from raw oysters, and state officials warned of an increase in cases. The oysters were infected with Vibrio ...

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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 ...

A total of five deaths and 20 cases of a flesh-eating bacteria have been reported so far in Florida this year, officials said. The latest figures from the Florida Department of Health show cases of ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Flesh-eating bacteria in Florida waters rose to 20 cases in 2025, the Florida Department of Health announced. Vibrio Vibriosis is a flesh-eating bacterium that lives in certain ...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center reports that maternal immunoglobulin G (IgG), ingested in the first week of life, restrained microbiota-dependent adaptive immune responses weeks later, after weaning in ...

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — Health officials have confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating bacterium in Martin County. The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) reported the infection as the 20th ...

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 ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - It can be deadly, and it’s infecting people here in the panhandle. Two people have died from Vibrio Vulnificus, also known as flesh-eating bacteria, in Bay County this ...