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 ...

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

People with compromised immune systems, liver disease, or open wounds are at ... blood vessels and organs. Calling it “flesh-eating bacteria” is inaccurate because (1) it kills tissue ...