Another Louisiana resident has died from contracting flesh-eating bacteria, the state health department confirmed Tuesday.

Three more cases of Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria, have been reported in Florida as of Sept. 18.

Albert Allison is back home after a scare of a lifetime with Vibrio vulnificus, more commonly known as a flesh-eating disease ...

A flesh-eating bacterium lurking in Gulf waters and oysters has killed five people in Louisiana this year. Health officials ...

On Aug. 13, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued a warning regarding a potentially dangerous bacterium found ...

Officials are sounding the alarm on an emerging disease spreading throughout the country that is caused by the kissing bug, ...

A recent Frontiers in Medicine study assesses the effectiveness of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to identify differences between infected and non-infected wounds. Study: Is my wound infected? A study on ...

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Starting on Friday, British doctors will be able to prescribe maggots to patients with infected wounds, a hospital official said. He said the state National Health Service had realized that maggots ...

Scientists have used a peptide from Komodo dragon blood to create a drug that helps wound healing in mice. Scientists have used a peptide from Komodo dragon blood to create a drug that helps wound ...

British rocker Pete Doherty has been hospitalized following a run in with a hedgehog. The Libertines frontman tweeted that he was in the hospital after a wound he got from touching a hedgehog spike ...