Flesh-eating Infection

Necrotising fasciitis is a rare and life-threatening infection that can happen if a wound gets infected and it needs to be treated in a hospital straight away.

Mr LeBlanc's mother, Yvette Berthelot LeBlanc, wrote on Facebook that the past two weeks have been a hard time for their family.

Health officials in Japan are on high alert after close to 1,000 cases of a deadly infection were reported across the country.

The life-threatening infection was eating away his face, the doctors got to know. During the surgery, they discovered the tissue around his face is full of micro-organisms and bugs.

According to the CDC, a dozen people have died from the infection across the US this year.

Mike Krumholz has appealed to other contact lens wearers to not sleep or take shower while wearing them.

An ankle twist sustained by an 11-year-old boy while running on a treadmill resulted in a flesh eating infection, which ultimately caused his death.

Doctors in Portugal found a 64-year-old man's ear infested with flesh-eating maggots after he went to the hospital complaining of pain, itching and bleeding.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning doctors and patients that some widely used diabetes drugs may, in some rare cases, cause a flesh-eating bacterial infection of the genitals.

A Texas woman died earlier this month after contracting a flesh-eating infection from floodwaters brought by Hurricane Harvey, according to health officials in Houston.

A 31-year-old man died after his tattoo became infected with flesh-eating bacteria that live in ocean water, according to a new report. He had gone for a swim in the Gulf of Mexico just five days after getting a tattoo on his leg, against the doctor's advice.

About 80,000 people get some form of vibriosis every year, usually from eating raw or undercooked shellfish, according to the Centers for Disease Control. For most, the worst symptoms are diarrhea and vomiting.

Jake Finkbonner was so close to death after flesh-eating bacteria infected him through a cut on his lip that his parents had last rites performed and were discussing donating the 5-year-old's tiny organs.

After 10 days in the hospital, a Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating infection isn't letting the breathing tube in her throat stop her from mouthing questions such as "Where am I?" and "How long have I been here?" The parents of 24-year-old Aimee Copeland said Monday they know many more questions - and much tougher answers - will ...

Necrotising fasciitis is a rare and life-threatening infection that can happen if a wound gets infected and it needs to be treated in a hospital straight away.

Mr LeBlanc's mother, Yvette Berthelot LeBlanc, wrote on Facebook that the past two weeks have been a hard time for their family.

Health officials in Japan are on high alert after close to 1,000 cases of a deadly infection were reported across the country.

The life-threatening infection was eating away his face, the doctors got to know. During the surgery, they discovered the tissue around his face is full of micro-organisms and bugs.

According to the CDC, a dozen people have died from the infection across the US this year.

Mike Krumholz has appealed to other contact lens wearers to not sleep or take shower while wearing them.

An ankle twist sustained by an 11-year-old boy while running on a treadmill resulted in a flesh eating infection, which ultimately caused his death.

Doctors in Portugal found a 64-year-old man's ear infested with flesh-eating maggots after he went to the hospital complaining of pain, itching and bleeding.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning doctors and patients that some widely used diabetes drugs may, in some rare cases, cause a flesh-eating bacterial infection of the genitals.

A Texas woman died earlier this month after contracting a flesh-eating infection from floodwaters brought by Hurricane Harvey, according to health officials in Houston.

A 31-year-old man died after his tattoo became infected with flesh-eating bacteria that live in ocean water, according to a new report. He had gone for a swim in the Gulf of Mexico just five days after getting a tattoo on his leg, against the doctor's advice.

About 80,000 people get some form of vibriosis every year, usually from eating raw or undercooked shellfish, according to the Centers for Disease Control. For most, the worst symptoms are diarrhea and vomiting.

Jake Finkbonner was so close to death after flesh-eating bacteria infected him through a cut on his lip that his parents had last rites performed and were discussing donating the 5-year-old's tiny organs.

After 10 days in the hospital, a Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating infection isn't letting the breathing tube in her throat stop her from mouthing questions such as "Where am I?" and "How long have I been here?" The parents of 24-year-old Aimee Copeland said Monday they know many more questions - and much tougher answers - will ...