In December, the Crenshaw family came down with the flu. When then 3-year-old Bryson started feeling ill, mom Megan Crenshaw thought he had a bug and gave him some Tylenol. Then Bryson complained of ...

A rare species of so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater has been linked to five deaths in Florida this year, state health officials said. Vibrio vulnificus, a dangerous ...

From California to Texas and across the country to Florida, a dangerous and potentially deadly infection has seemingly dominated the news this summer: necrotizing fasciitis, colloquially referred to ...

A man who contracted a flesh-eating bacterial infection in his right leg found that the infection had spread to his left one as well, a mere four days later. The 58-year-old man reported to the ...

Georgie Henley recently spoke out about the scars she has from a brush with necrotizing fasciitis. The "flesh-eating" infection is known to spread quickly and can result in amputation or death. Early ...

Georgie Henley, who portrayed Lucy in The Chronicles of Narnia films, opened up about contracting necrotizing fasciitis when she was 18 Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team.

Carolyn “Lynn” Fleming fell in the water at Coquina Beach near Bradenton, Fla., and suffered a cut on her leg that became infected with flesh-eating bacteria. She died last week, prompting her family ...

A college student with a bruise on his leg got sick during a wrestling tournament. The bruise turned out to be a rare "flesh-eating" infection. Bacteria may have entered his body from a wrestling mat ...

After two more cases of flesh-eating bacteria infections were reported from Florida waters recently, Tampa Bay area physicians are warning residents and visitors to be careful swimming in brackish ...