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 ...

The disease is rare — just 20,000 cases a year — but can spread quickly with deadly results Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to Simone ...

Necrotizing fasciitis, which literally translated means "inflammation of the fascia (connective tissue) causing cell death," is the medical term for what's known as "flesh-eating" disease. A recent ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A rare species of so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater has been linked to five deaths in Florida this year, state health officials said. Vibrio vulnificus, a dangerous ...