GREENSBORO, N.C. — You can get both from swimming and both are potentially dangerous, but here’s what you should know about brain-eating amoeba and flesh-eating bacteria. The two are both rare, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another case of Vibrio vulnificus, the horrific infection also called "flesh-eating" bacteria, has been reported in Florida ...

Dear Doctors: We live in Florida, and we keep seeing on the news about people dying from flesh-eating bacteria you can get when you go swimming. It seems like it’s happening a lot more often than it ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man who visited the Gulf Coast has died of flesh-eating bacteria. In a post written by the man's daughter on Wednesday, she described a weekend filled with family fun, ...

SPRING HILL, Fla. (WFLA) — A Tampa Bay man who was given a 10% chance of survival after contracting flesh-eating bacteria is now back in the area. He is beating the odds as he goes through rehab ...

Florida has reported 31 cases of Vibrio vulnificus, or "flesh-eating" bacteria, so far this year, resulting in five deaths. The bacteria thrives in warm, brackish seawater and can infect humans ...

Florida has reported 30 cases of Vibrio vulnificus, also known as "flesh-eating" bacteria, so far this year. Five deaths from the infection have been recorded in Florida in 2025. The bacteria is found ...