The number of infections by drug-resistant, “nightmare bacteria” rose by almost 70 percent between 2019 and 2023 in the United States, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. Almost a dozen people have died this year in the Southeast after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus ...

Florida health officials reported that four people died and over a half dozen others were made sick this year by a rare "flesh-eating" bacteria. Vibrio vulnificus, which is found in saltwater, ...

Infections caused by 'nightmare bacteria', a deadly drug-resistant pathogen, are on a surge in the US, according to the country's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reports that these ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just ...

Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that constantly “sense” their surroundings to survive and thrive. New research shows that beneficial gut microbes, especially common Clostridia bacteria, can ...

A new study from the CDC found that infection rates for a drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” are on the rise, increasing nearly 70% between 2019 and 2023. The increase was primarily driven by the NDM ...

Nightmare bacteria are very much the stuff of waking life. These microbes pose a “triple threat” to humanity because they are “resistant to all or nearly all antibiotics,” they have “high mortality ...

Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” are on the rise in the U.S.—meaning that it is important to be aware of the risks, causes and how to slow the spread. The surge comes as part ...

Ten people have died in the U.S. this year, mostly in Florida and Louisiana, from Vibrio vulnificus, a "flesh-eating" bacteria that spreads through seawater and shellfish. Cases of the deadly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In something that feels straight out of a horror movie, flesh-eating bacteria was recently identified on the East Coast. Down in ...