Carolann Fowler, known as Carolina East, had a pain in the back on her left leg last November. Less than a week later, she was in a coma being treated for necrotizing fasciitis. She talks about her ...

A true dermatologic emergency is a skin disorder that threatens life or functional outcomes and requires immediate treatment.

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria nicknamed "flesh-eating," has been found in coastal North Carolina and Florida. The bacteria can be contracted by eating undercooked shellfish or through an open wound ...

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 ...

About 1 in 5 people with this infection die. HealthDay News — Louisiana health officials have confirmed a fifth death this year linked to Vibrio vulnificus, a rare and dangerous flesh-eating bacteria ...

Louisiana health officials have confirmed a fifth death this year linked to Vibrio vulnificus, a rare and dangerous flesh-eating bacteria found in warm coastal waters. The bacteria is most common ...

A Pensacola woman believes she contracted the flesh-eating bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, after swimming in Santa Rosa Sound with a small cut on her leg. Vibrio bacteria live in coastal waters and are ...

Health officials in the US state of Louisiana have confirmed that two people have died from eating raw oysters that were contaminated with the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, reports CBS News ...

Two people have died from eating raw oysters that were contaminated with a flesh-eating bacteria, Louisiana health officials said. Vibrio vulnificus is a bacteria that occurs in warm coastal waters.

NEW ORLEANS -- Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just ...