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LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- High bacteria levels prompted Los Angeles County health officials Thursday to warn swimmers to stay out of the water at several popular beaches. The affected beaches are: -- ...

The Florida Department of Health reported one new Vibrio vulnificus, commonly referred to as "flesh-eating" bacteria, in Escambia County, bringing the total cases up to three. Another new case was ...

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 ...

A Pensacola woman believes she contracted the flesh-eating bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, after swimming in Santa Rosa Sound with a small cut on her leg. Vibrio bacteria live in coastal waters and are ...

Genevieve Gallagher is undergoing treatment at UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville for wounds she received after doctors were forced to remove much of the tissue on her left calf. Gallagher ...

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 ...

(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 ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (PIX11) – A seventh person has died from Legionnaires’ disease in connection with the Harlem outbreak, according to the city’s Health Department. There are 114 confirmed cases of ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The video above aired in a previous newscast. NEW YORK (PIX11) – Legionella bacteria was found at an FDNY Emergency Medical Service station in Harlem. The testing was done by the ...

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 ...