As Florida continues to recover from Hurricane Ian, state health officials are warning that a deadly storm surge has led to a surge in infections caused by potentially deadly "flesh-eating" bacteria in flood waters, Yahoo reports. How many cases were there? According to the Florida Department of Public Health,…
The amount of coastal waters that can harbor harmful Vibrio bacteria has increased by 56%. One of the species is carnivorous, INSIDER reports. Rising sea temperatures are expanding the habitat of Vibrio bacteria found in warm, brackish water. Proportion of coastline on which...
In San Diego, carnivorous bacteria that enter the body along with black tar from heroin use killed 2 people in 7 months, according to US health officials. Writes about this USA Today. In the period from October 2 to November 24, 9 people who ...
The woman said that she nearly lost her arm due to the carnivorous bacteria she contracted after getting a manicure at a beauty salon in Knoxville, Tennessee. Writes about this Yahoo.News. Jane Sharp said that she did not even suspect anything when her "thumb was hurt" in ...
A Texas girl became infected with a deadly brain-eating amoeba after a day in the river. Lily Mae Avant, 10, bathed during a Labor Day weekend on the Brazos River near the town of Weyko. Doctors believe that it was there that she contracted the life-threatening amoeba ...
According to his wife, after being infected with carnivorous bacteria, her husband in Florida underwent three operations, as a result of which doctors removed about 25 percent of the skin, at the moment another operation is scheduled. When 50-year-old David Irland from Orlando, Florida developed ...
Carnivorous bacteria are on the rise in the Gulf of Mexico as the ocean water heats up due to climate change. At least three people on the Florida Gulf Coast have developed necrotizing fasciitis in the past month, a complication of an infection with the bacteria vibrio vulnificus, also known as ...
An Indiana resident shared frightening photographs of her 12-year-old daughter's treatment of the carnivorous bacteria she contracted during a family trip to Florida on Facebook in early June. Michelle Brown said that her family arrived in Destin, Florida on June 7th, ...
When teacher Chris Gordon woke up with a tennis ball-sized bump on his elbow, he immediately went to see a doctor. At first he was told that he may have cellulite-phlegmon (acute diffuse purulent inflammation) of the subcutaneous fat. Since this is not a serious disease, ...
Blake Shelton, 42, was bitten by a shark on the beach near Crystal Beach Island in Texas on August 9. A few weeks later, he was hospitalized again due to flesh-eating bacteria - doctors say that the appearance of bacteria was caused by a shark attack, writes Fox News. Shelton was about...