A 50-year study says more Vibrio infections correlate with rising water temperatures, representing “a direct impact on human ...

Three people in North Carolina have died in the last month due to infections from vibrio, a bacteria that naturally lives in coastal waters. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Patty Konietzky thought the small purple lesion on her husband's ankle was a spider bite. But when the lesion quickly spread across his body like a constellation, she knew ...

Bill Sullivan is a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Indiana University. Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it's a growing – and potentially fatal – ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. Symptoms of Vibrio infection can range from vomiting and diarrhea to ...

Vibrio infections often begin when people eat raw or undercooked seafood. A man died in Florida earlier this month after eating a contaminated raw oyster. Last week the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Anotehr case of Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," has been reported in southwest Florida. Here's how ...

Pensacola mayor urges property owners to aid small businesses during Palafox construction PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves is asking downtown property owners to help out during the ...

Albert Allison is back home after a scare of a lifetime with Vibrio vulnificus, more commonly known as a flesh-eating disease. He was discharged from a rehabilitation center on Sept. 14 and is doing ...

Several bacterial systems have been described that secrete effector proteins into the extracellular milieu or directly into host cells. The type VI secretion system (T6SS) was recently discovered, and ...

Donnie Humfress loved wade fishing in Hancock County. But he doesn’t do it anymore. An uptick in the number of reported Vibrio cases in recent years has kept him and his family out of the water. “I’m ...

The bacterium Vibrio vulnificus thrives in saltwater and brackish water, and can cause severe illness Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and ...