State health leaders say there has been one case of Vibrio vulnificus in Connecticut that occurred in February. Officials did not say exactly where.

Researchers at Stony Brook University have detected Vibrio vulnificus, the bacterium behind severe “flesh-eating” wound ...

Just three days earlier, the man was otherwise healthy and active on the coast. But at one point when he jumped into the ...

Warming waters are pushing the dreaded flesh-eating bacteria up the Atlantic coast. Experts explain who's at risk and how ...

Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the structure of Vibrio bacteria, which can cause life-threatening infections ...

Health experts have raised concerns after the highly lethal flesh-eating bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus was detected in ...

In the summer of 2023, a man in Suffolk County, New York, waded into warm, brackish water with a minor cut on his leg. Within ...

An expert ecologist has warned that exposure to the deadly flesh-eating bacteria can result in a 20% change of dying within ...

The Connecticut Department of Public Health declined to say how the case was contracted, but she said the “individual did ...

A vicious flesh-eating bacteria may be lurking in bodies of water across Long Island, as researchers warned its victims face ...

A potentially deadly bacteria has infected a person in Massachusetts, public health officials said Wednesday, warning people about the chance of contracting it in coastal water. The person infected ...

Ocean temperatures climb as dangerous flesh-eating bacteria once confined to the tropics move rapidly up the coast.