Shortly after Hurricane Helene’s torrential rains and storm surge subsided, Florida’s Department of Health had a new, but familiar, problem on their hands. They recorded ... Vibrio are a group of ...

Maura Santos said she was poked in the left hand on Nov. 21 at Olive Supermarket while grabbing tilapia from an ice display ...

(Bloomberg) -- A disease caused by a rare “flesh-eating bacteria” that can kill people ... Kikuchi urged people to maintain hand hygiene and to treat any open wounds. He said patients may ...

MICHAEL SMITH: Flesh eating ... the skin gets, red or purple and swells, and the pain gets worse. In addition to the, skin infection, people can have, vomiting and diarrhea. The bacteria move ...

However, if the bacteria enters the body through a wound, it can cause the much deadlier fulminant STSS. The "flesh-eating bacterium" can infect patients through wounds on the hands and feet ...

A record number of cases of a potentially fatal “flesh-eating disease” were reported ... enters the bloodstream and spinal fluid where bacteria cannot normally be detected.