The New World screwworm feeds on live tissue, according to the CDC ...

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration in a preemptive response to the potential spread of the New World ...

A Florida father's dream getaway to a popular island destination ended in intensive care after a minor scratch on his ankle ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - A San Diego homeless advocate who nearly died from COVID-19 and later battled a flesh-eating disease that cost him part of his leg has returned to his mission of helping people ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Nearly a year after her harrowing medical journey began, Arisbeth Munoz couldn't stop smiling as she was fitted with her first prosthetic arm at a San Diego clinic. The 40-year-old ...

A woman lost her leg to a rare flesh-eating disease after what she believed was a cold, ended up being Strep A. Friedel de Beer, 51, who lives in the French Alps, had been battling a cold when she ...

Former Charleroi resident Carolyn “Lynn” Fleming liked to read, play word games and take trips to the beach. Unfortunately, a June 14 visit to Coquina Beach near Bradenton, Fla., with family members ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An inquest into the death of an amateur footballer who died from a flesh-eating disease exactly three years ago has ruled that ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — One Tampa family is trying to get their loved one back home after he contracted a flesh-eating disease while overseas in the Bahamas. Family members said the 62-year-old almost ...

MIAMI — A 77-year-old former Charleroi resident was infected by flesh-eating bacteria and died nearly two weeks after she fell and scraped her leg while walking on a Florida beach, her family said ...