While the majority of cases diagnosed as flesh-eating bacteria involve a body of water, one California woman who lost the majority of muscle and skin on her left foot said the origin of her infection ...

MANASOTA BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) – Leann Thibodeau never thought it would happen to her. After all, she’s been to the beach a million times. She describes it as her favorite place in the world. A week ...

A 13-foot-long python was recently found in a trailer park in Oklahoma City, as per USA Today. The reptile has reportedly been living in the area for close to five months. According to residents, the ...

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Calif. - A California woman, who said had not been in the water recently, contracted a flesh-eating bacteria that ravaged her foot, eating away at her flesh and exposing her bone.

A U.K. man said he is lucky to be alive and credits the 400 maggots used to eat away at a deadly infection in his foot with helping to save his life. Matthew Blurton, of Yorkshire, said he was bitten ...

Raul Reyes is up, using a walker and is in good spirits. He had been so close to death just a few days earlier.Concerned about what he thought was a blister last week, the 26-year-old went to a clinic ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KFOR) – A nearly ...

Aimee Copeland, who will lose multiple limbs, shed no tears, family said. May 18, 2012— -- Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student who lost her leg to a rare flesh-eating infection two weeks ago, ...

MANASOTA BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) – Leann Thibodeau never thought it would happen to her. After all, she’s been to the beach a million times. She describes it as her favorite place in the world. A week ...