The culprit, Vibrio vulnificus, thrives in warm seawater and can get into the body through open wounds in the skin.

Flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus killed four in Florida in 2025. Learn who’s at risk—those with liver disease, weak ...

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

Four people in Florida have died this year from bacterial infections that can cause “flesh-eating” wounds, according to the state’s health department. NBC News’ George Solis has more on what causes ...

The Florida Department of Health released its 2025 report on Vibrio vulnificus. It's a type of flesh-eating bacteria found in ...

Florida's health department has reported at least four fatalities due to a rare flesh-eating bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus.

The deaths caused by Vibrio vulnificus bacterium were in Hillsborough, Bay, Broward and St. Johns counties, according to the ...

A flesh-eating bacteria called vibrio vulunificus that thrives in saltwater and brackish water had claimed the lives of four ...