In December, the Crenshaw family came down with the flu. When then 3-year-old Bryson started feeling ill, mom Megan Crenshaw thought he had a bug and gave him some Tylenol. Then Bryson complained of ...

From California to Texas and across the country to Florida, a dangerous and potentially deadly infection has seemingly dominated the news this summer: necrotizing fasciitis, colloquially referred to ...

A rare species of so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater has been linked to five deaths in Florida this year, state health officials said. Vibrio vulnificus, a dangerous ...

A man died from a bacterial infection he got after chasing his dog into a pond. One in five people who develop necrotizing fasciitis, or 'flesh-eating' disease, die. Necrotizing fasciitis can cause ...

A man who contracted a flesh-eating bacterial infection in his right leg found that the infection had spread to his left one as well, a mere four days later. The 58-year-old man reported to the ...

Georgie Henley recently spoke out about the scars she has from a brush with necrotizing fasciitis. The "flesh-eating" infection is known to spread quickly and can result in amputation or death. Early ...

Mike O’Grady’s lower back was hurting so he went to his doctor to get a steroid shot. A few days later, the 68-year-old Florida grandfather went on vacation with his wife, Kelli, in the Panhandle. The ...

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 ...

In 2013, I was at a point where my career was beginning to take off again. I was an artist who had tinkered around the edges of illustration and travelled abroad to lead some comics workshops. At 42, ...

The family of a Florida woman who say she died after being infected by flesh-eating bacteria at a beach is sounding the alarm. Lynn Fleming, 77, died late last week after walking along a popular Gulf ...

The bacteria thrives in warm waters, and cases increase in the U.S. every summer Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to Simone Biles and ...