In December, the Crenshaw family came down with the flu. When then 3-year-old Bryson started feeling ill, mom Megan Crenshaw thought he had a bug and gave him some Tylenol. Then Bryson complained of ...

A former cross-country runner was left without a leg after developing this flesh-eating disease. Emma Doherty, 37, fell ill in February 2021 with sepsis — which later turned into necrotizing fasciitis ...

A man who contracted a flesh-eating bacterial infection in his right leg found that the infection had spread to his left one as well, a mere four days later. The 58-year-old man reported to the ...

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’re likely aware of the flesh-eating bacteria, necrotizing fasciitis, that has impacted or taken the lives of a number of people who have visited warm-water ...

MOORESVILLE, Ind. (WXIN/CNN) -- A family vacation to Florida resulted in a week in the hospital for one Indiana family. Their 12-year-old daughter Kylei contracted a life-threatening infection from ...

I was living in Carrollton, Georgia, back in 2012 while completing my master's degree in psychology. I was 24 years old and had dreams of becoming a wilderness therapist. But on May 1 that year, my ...

Necrotizing cellulitis and necrotizing fasciitis are bacterial soft tissue infections that enter through wounds in the skin. Cellulitis is a common infection that occurs when bacteria enter the deeper ...