Stories of brain-eating amoebas and flesh-eating bacteria are frightening. Here's what swimmers in North Carolina should know ...

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria that lives in sea waters, brackish water and inside raw or uncooked seafood, led to at least ...

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Often, necrotizing fasciitis occurs in a person with a pre-existing health problem—such as diabetes or lupus—that has left his or her immune system compromised, and thus less able to stave off ...

Necrotizing fasciitis is most often associated with bacterial infections. Zygomycosis is an uncommon infection causing necrotizing fasciitis. We report 18 such cases of zygomycotic necrotizing ...

Necrotizing fasciitis, commonly known as the flesh-eating disease, results from a bacterial infection and rapidly destroys the body's soft tissue.

Treating necrotizing fasciitis . Necrotizing fasciitis is rare. In the United States, about 700 to 1,500 people annually will be infected by necrotizing fasciitis, according to the Centers for ...

Four people have died and 7 others have been sickened amid a rise in cases of Vibrio vulnificus, flesh-eating bacteria that ...

Doctors in the U.K. have warned gynecologists of the risks of necrotizing fasciitis in the external genitalia after seeing several cases.

Even with medical care, necrotizing fasciitis can lead to organ failure or sepsis. About 20 percent (one in five) people who experience necrotizing fasciitis die, and the rate is even higher for ...

Aimee Copeland, 24, is currently at JMS Burn Center in Augusta battling necrotizing fasciitis. Facebook (CBS News) Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old graduate student who is fighting for her life ...