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October 27, 2015

Man dies from flesh-eating bacteria after swimming in Florida, no health warning issued

A Florida man died June 16 after contracting flesh-eating bacteria, but the state health department has yet to issue a warning, his family claims.

October 27, 2015

Florida man needs leg amputated after exposure to bacteria at beach

Doctors amputated a Florida man's leg after a scrape on the limb was exposed to flesh-eating bacteria at a beach on the Gulf of Mexico, Naples News reported.

October 26, 2015

Texas woman left blind after contracting flesh-eating bacteria in eye during mud run

A Texas woman was left blind in one eye after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria during her first mud run competition on June 22.  

October 26, 2015

Flesh-eating bacteria kills Virginia fisherman

A Virginia fisherman stabbed by a catfish barb has died of a flesh-eating bacteria, a state health official said on Wednesday.

October 26, 2015

How to avoid the ‘flesh-eating bacteria’ lurking at Florida beaches

Take caution if you’re headed to the Florida beach this summer: A potentially deadly species of bacteria found in saltwater has infected at least eight people and killed two people so far this year, according to state officials.

October 25, 2015

After losing daughter, California mom vows to raise awareness of deadly amoeba

A California mother is forming a nonprofit and raising funds for research of a potentially deadly amoeba that took her 20-year-old daughter’s life in 2014, HavasuNews.com reported.

October 25, 2015

Officials investigating after Minnesota teen dies from suspected brain-eating amoeba from lake

A teenage boy who developed a rare brain infection after swimming in a western Minnesota lake has died.

October 25, 2015

New York doctors reconstruct Kenyan child’s face after flesh-eating bacteria

A girl from a remote village in Africa has regained her confidence – and her smile – thanks to the charitable efforts of a group of doctors at Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook, New York.

October 24, 2015

Ohio City detects Lake Erie toxins that led to 2014 crisis

 Toledo has detected the first signs in Lake Erie of the dangerous toxin that resulted in a water crisis last year that left 400,000 people in northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan without safe tap water for two days.

October 24, 2015

Builder loses all four limbs to life-threatening flesh-eating bug

A builder from England who initially thought he had the flu was hospitalized and given a zero percent chance of survival by doctors after he contracted a mysterious flesh-eating bug.