Vibrio vulnificus is moving north. Over the summer, three people in New York and Connecticut died, and an additional person was hospitalized, The New York Times reported, after they contracted Vibrio ...

Cases of Vibrio vulnificusa, so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," have more than doubled in Florida following Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene. The bacteria thrives in warm brackish water often ...

Eleven people have contracted Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria, and four of them have died from it so far in 2025, according to the Florida Department of Health. The deaths ...

Recent news reports regarding deaths attributed to a rare flesh-eating bacteria noted that one of the five deaths since Jan. 1 that occurred in Florida was in Sarasota County. Florida Department of ...

One person has died and two have been hospitalized from eating raw shellfish or becoming exposed to the water in Long Island Sound, according to the Connecticut Department of Public Health. The ...

Two people in Connecticut have died this summer, and a third became ill, after being infected with a flesh-eating bacteria found in raw shellfish and saltwater — but none of it was associated with ...