If you experience high fever, chills, joint pain, rashes, or fatigue, common symptoms of vector-borne diseases consult a ...

"Cases have expanded in the Eastern U.S.," Aileen Marty, professor of infectious diseases, Florida International University, told Newsweek.

Four people in Florida have died this year from Vibrio vulnificus, a rare flesh-eating bacterium found in warm, brackish ...

Vibrio bacteria thrive at popular bathing sites like the Baltic Sea. Vibriosis is caused by Vibrio bacteria, which live ...

The Florida Department of Health is reporting that there have been deaths in Bay, Broward, St. Johns and Hillsborough ...

Escalating sea surface temperatures make these naturally occurring bacteria thrive in coastal waters, posing a growing public ...

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A local doctor shares her expertise about the Vibrio vulnificus infection that's claimed the lives of four Floridians this year, including a St. Johns County resident.

Bacteria that cause intestinal infections typically avoid a stinky chemical - one that can kill them at high enough concentrations - inside human intestines, but they may actually swim toward it when ...

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling it can cause in babies and toddlers.

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