The bacteria thrives in warm waters, and is fatal for 1 in 5 people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aimee Copeland's life has dramatically changed over the past four years. In May 2012, the then 24-year-old cut her leg in a fall ...

Some vibrio infections can lead to necrotizing fasciitis, a serious form of bacterial infection commonly referred to as ...

As the case of Aimee Copeland entered national consciousness this week, we’ve had occasion to learn about the horrors of necrotizing fasciitis, the body-ravaging infection that’s often referred to as ...

The eco-psychology grad student caught the gruesome affliction last week after falling from a homemade zipline into Georgia's Little Tallapoosa River May 1st and sustaining a deep gash to her left ...

In January 2012, Lori Madsen, then 51, was walking through a parking lot, when she fell and skinned her arm. Initially, she didn’t think much about the rugburn-like abrasion on her arm – but later ...

Carolyn Fleming of Ellenton, Florida, may have been the latest person to die of a flesh-eating bacteria infection, which she contracted infection swimming off the coast of Anna Maria Island in Florida ...

Carol Martin died after developing necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bacteria, after a vacation in Florida. Her infection initially looked like a large pimple—until a biopsy revealed the actual ...

Cases of necrotizing fasciitis were analyzed over a period of 7 years (1998–2004) from the archives of Department of Histopathology, Post graduate institute of medical education and research, ...