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 ...

HOLLAND, Mich. — A Holland resident is speaking out after surviving necrotizing fasciitis, a rare but often fatal bacterial infection she contracted following a routine ovarian surgery in 2023. Brenna ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man contracted a life-threatening, flesh-eating infection after breaking up a fight at a family gathering, leading to a large amount of his thigh being removed to save his life. Donnie Adams, a ...