Stories of brain-eating amoebas and flesh-eating bacteria are frightening. Here's what swimmers in North Carolina should know about the risk.

The bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, most often causes infection through open wounds and the consumption of undercooked or raw ...

Infections that enter the bloodstream are fatal about 50 percent of the time. Some who contract the infection die within days.

Eleven people in Florida have been infected with Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "fleshing-eating" bacteria, including 2 in Escambia and Santa Rosa.

Four people have died and 7 others have been sickened amid a rise in cases of Vibrio vulnificus, flesh-eating bacteria that ...