Melinda Howard’s medical ordeal started with a paper cut on her hand. One week later, she was in urgent care where she required three forms of antibiotics to fight an alarming infection. “It was scary ...

WANCHESE, N.C. (WRAL) – A man has spent more than a week in a hospital on North Carolina’s Outer Banks after a small cut on his leg led to a dangerous infection. He came into contact with Vibrio ...

A Pensacola woman believes she contracted the flesh-eating bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, after swimming in Santa Rosa Sound with a small cut on her leg. Vibrio bacteria live in coastal waters and are ...