With the ownership of water again an issue for concerned debate, there is much to be learned from the pioneers of public provision ...

Cases of Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria, continue to surge in Florida with two more cases reported Sept. 4 by the state Department of Health. That makes 25 cases so far this ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Vibrio vulnificus has been dubbed a "flesh-eating bacteria" by doctors and scientists. In some instances, the bacteria enters the body through open wounds. This year, seven cases ...

Genevieve Gallagher has started a Go Fund Me to cover expenses from fighting the vibrio vulnificus that nearly took her life and her leg after swimming near Quietwater Beach Escambia County ...

A Pensacola woman nearly lost her life and her leg to the flesh-eating bacteria known as vibrio vulnificus, or vibrio, after swimming with her daughter in Santa Rosa Sound off Pensacola Beach on July ...

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 ...

Another person is hospitalized in Bay County because of a "flesh-eating" bacteria. This brings the number of cases of those infected this year up to three in Bay County, with two deaths. Statewide, ...

NEW ORLEANS -- 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 ...

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A third person has been hospitalized in Bay County with a vibrio vulnificus infection, bringing the county's total cases to three with two deaths. Florida has seen 23 vibrio infections and five deaths ...