“We were totally blindsided. It all felt so surreal, it felt like a living nightmare,” Scarlett Simpson said of her late mom, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aimee Copeland's life has dramatically changed over the past four years. In May 2012, the then 24-year-old cut her leg in a fall ...

Caroline Fonjock needed emergency surgery after she developed an aggressive case of the flesh-eating disease that left her ...

The eco-psychology grad student caught the gruesome affliction last week after falling from a homemade zipline into Georgia's Little Tallapoosa River May 1st and sustaining a deep gash to her left ...

As the case of Aimee Copeland entered national consciousness this week, we’ve had occasion to learn about the horrors of necrotizing fasciitis, the body-ravaging infection that’s often referred to as ...

Cases of “flesh-eating” bacterial infections usually increase in summer. Here’s what you need to know before your next swim. Because necrotizing fasciitis spreads so quickly, it’s crucial for people ...

A rare but horrific kind of infection might be on the rise. Gynecologists in the UK have begun to see an alarming increase in people with necrotizing fasciitis of the vulva, a.k.a. the “flesh-eating” ...

Cases of necrotizing fasciitis were analyzed over a period of 7 years (1998–2004) from the archives of Department of Histopathology, Post graduate institute of medical education and research, ...

Carolyn Fleming of Ellenton, Florida, may have been the latest person to die of a flesh-eating bacteria infection, which she contracted infection swimming off the coast of Anna Maria Island in Florida ...