Vibrio vulnificus cases have risen to 80 following the widespread flooding from back-to-back hurricanes, surpassing the ...

Barry Keoghan discussed his experience with necrotising fasciitis - which is also known as the 'flesh-eating disease' - on ...

Barry Keoghan discussed his experience with necrotising fasciitis - which is also known as the 'flesh-eating disease' - on ...

The married 53-year-old was motivated by greed after finding out that his mother, Jenny Leung, had made a will which allowed ...

Sunderland-based Dr Thomas Kwan, 53, admitted trying to killing Patrick O’Hara in an extraordinary plan that left the 72-year ...

Mr O'Hara, who contracted a life-threatening flesh-eating disease which caused horrific injuries, previously told Newcastle Crown Court he had become a "shell" of himself. Kwan, who admitted attempted ...

The Saltburn star revealed he could have died or lost his arm from the infection if doctors hadn't caught it fast enough.

A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers studying a recently emerged strain of bacteria ...

It sounds like a disease no-one in Britain could get. But here Vicky Bendell tells how she contracted - and then beat - a flesh eating disease. Everytime I look at my son I think how lucky I am ...

“Instead, it preys on blood-engorged mosquitoes, indirectly getting a blood meal by eating their prey ... taxonomy and systematics, ecology, disease epidemiology, protein biochemistry ...