After a decades-long hiatus, new world screwworm populations have surged in Central America and Mexico — and are inching northward.

SAN ANTONIO - Authorities around Texas are inspecting livestock for the New World screwworm — a flesh-eating parasite that ...

Another case of Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," has been reported in Florida. Here's how to protect ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just ...

While details are confidential, Polk County logged its first flesh-eating bacteria case this year, health officials say, as ...