GREENSBORO, N.C. — You can get both from swimming and both are potentially dangerous, but here’s what you should know about brain-eating amoeba and flesh-eating bacteria. The two are both rare, but ...

Scientists are warning that a microscopic predator is quietly exploiting the world’s warming and aging water systems, slipping past filters and disinfectants to reach human noses and, in rare cases, ...

Brain infections caused by so‑called brain‑eating amoebas have long been treated as medical curiosities, terrifying but vanishingly rare. That framing is starting to look dangerously outdated. As the ...

Stabbing things, it turns out, is an enormously useful skill for bacteria. Some do it to deter insects. Some do it to attack bacterial competitors. Some, as I wrote about here two years ago, even seem ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A child died from a rare ...

Twenty-year-old Koral Reef's life was just beginning. She said yes to the dress and married her high school sweetheart. But Reef never got the chance to enjoy her happily ever after when she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria, has recently made headlines in Florida, but its not the only place it is ...

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria nicknamed "flesh-eating," has been found in coastal North Carolina and Florida. The bacteria can be contracted by eating undercooked shellfish or through an open wound ...