Doctors estimated Brian Roush had a less than 10% chance of survival, but after surgeries and treatment, he is starting his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aimee Copeland's life has dramatically changed over the past four years. In May 2012, the then 24-year-old cut her leg in a fall ...

As the case of Aimee Copeland entered national consciousness this week, we’ve had occasion to learn about the horrors of necrotizing fasciitis, the body-ravaging infection that’s often referred to as ...

A Florida man is recovering from a life-threatening case of flesh-eating bacteria after scraping his ankle during a New Year’s celebration in the Bahamas, Today reports. Brian Roush, 62, contracted ...

Cases of necrotizing fasciitis were analyzed over a period of 7 years (1998–2004) from the archives of Department of Histopathology, Post graduate institute of medical education and research, ...

Necrotizing fasciitis, which literally translated means "inflammation of the fascia (connective tissue) causing cell death," is the medical term for what's known as "flesh-eating" disease. A recent ...

The disease is rare — just 20,000 cases a year — but can spread quickly with deadly results Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to Simone ...

In January 2012, Lori Madsen, then 51, was walking through a parking lot, when she fell and skinned her arm. Initially, she didn’t think much about the rugburn-like abrasion on her arm – but later ...

From California to Texas and across the country to Florida, a dangerous and potentially deadly infection has seemingly dominated the news this summer: necrotizing fasciitis, colloquially referred to ...

Carolyn Fleming of Ellenton, Florida, may have been the latest person to die of a flesh-eating bacteria infection, which she contracted infection swimming off the coast of Anna Maria Island in Florida ...