Flash Eating Bacteria

Gerald Winegrad: Flesh-eating diseases are Chesapeake Bay’s dirty secret | COMMENTARY Flesh eating infections suffered after bay or river water interacts with open cuts or wounds are not as rare as the state and counties would have you believe, writes Gerald Winegrad.

'Flesh-eating' bacteria are also in Tennessee. How can you avoid it? Across the U.S., there appears to be a rise in cases of people contracting 'flesh-eating' bacteria. Experts weigh in on the cause of the bacteria and what families can do to stay safe while enjoying the rest of summer vacation.

A Flesh-Eating Bacteria Destroyed This Man's Hand After He Was Pricked By a Hook A Florida man contracted flesh-eating bacteria nectrotizing fasciitis after a fishing hook punctured his hand. Here's what you need to know about the bacteria.

A woman died from a flesh-eating bacteria that she thought was just a giant pimple Carol Martin died after developing a flesh-eating bacteria that she mistook for a pimple following a family vacation to Florida. Her family believes that she developed the deadly bacteria, known as necrotizing fasciitis, when she used a hot tub in the Clearwater, Florida, hotel they stayed at.