Flesh Eating Bacteria News

Group A streptococcus is a human pathogenic bacteria. Many people carry GAS asymptomatically in their upper respiratory tract and other anatomic sites.

Dr Thomas Proft is spearheading research to try to combat the spread of streptococcus.

The makers of some painkillers reject claims their drugs may be linked to a threefold increase in the "flesh-eating bug" in hospitals since 1990.

The number of patients in New Zealand hospitals attacked by "flesh-eating" bugs has trebled since 1990.

A young boy runs his dog at Seattle's Golden Gardens beach as seen in this 2009 Seattle, Wash.,... A young boy runs his dog at Seattle's Golden Gardens beach as seen in this 2009 Seattle, Wash., landscape photo.

Richard Johnson , a 54 year-old father, died in merely four hours after becoming infected with Necrotising Faciitis .

A FATHER died from a flesh-eating bug which advanced up his body as surgeons operated on him.

In early March, while staying at our holiday cottage in Trafalgar on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast, I went swimming, as has been my habit for many years, in the idyllic Mpenjati lagoon.

Eli Roth, a thirty-seven-year-old Los Angeles-based director of what some critics like to call "torture porn," has always had a fetishistic appreciation for gore.

Eli Roth, a thirty-seven-year-old Los Angeles-based director of what some critics like to call "torture porn," has always had a fetishistic appreciation for gore.

Necrotizing fasciitis is the correct medical term for flesh eating bacteria. It is a very rare but serious bacterial infection.

A Baytown man has died from illness caused by exposure to a rare pathogen often referred to as flesh-eating bacteria.

I would not have known what this was except it became very familiar to my family over the past few weeks.

The Department of State Health Services is informing beach-goers and fishermen about a flesh-eating bacteria that affects coastal regions.

I would not have known what this was except it became very familiar to my family over the past few weeks.

It's a story about courage and unity. In March, Upper Arlington Senior Blake Haxton lost both legs after contracting a rare, flesh eating bacteria.

A local teenager is recovering after a dangerous dive into Lake Washington that nearly cost him his life.

Up until a month ago, Conti nental Airlines flight attendant Glenda Pogue probably had nev er heard of necrotizing fascitis.

I'd been shuffling my feet along the hard bottom when the toe of my boot caught the outer rim of a small depression, causing me to stumble slightly.

A North Carolina teenager fighting a rare flesh-eating bacteria is out of the hospital.