The Outer Banks of North Carolina is the hardest-hit area of flesh-eating bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus. The city has reported ...

North Carolina is seeing an increase in Vibrio infections, with 59 cases and one death reported through July 31.

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Dare County health officials have issued a statement reminding the public on how to avoid ...

A surge of Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria, is impacting US coasts, leading to multiple deaths and infections. The ...

A serious bacterial infection has put a North Carolina man in an Outer Banks ICU, highlighting a growing concern over the ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Vibrio are bacteria that naturally live in certain coastal waters, and ...

Deaths from “flesh-eating” bacteria are on the rise across the southeastern coasts of the U.S. At least five people in ...

Cases of flesh-eating bacteria infections are rising across the Southeast, with North Carolina reporting 59 Vibrio infections ...

Outer Banks Voice In the wake of a WRAL report that a man has been hospitalized on the Outer Banks as the result of a Vibrio vulnificus infection, the Dare County Department ...

OUTER BANKS, N.C. (WITN) - A man has spent more than a week in an Outer Banks hospital after a small cut on his leg turned ...

A man has spent more than a week in a hospital on North Carolina’s Outer Banks after a small cut on his leg led to a ...

Jutla also explained that Vibrio vulnificus infections often rise following hurricanes, which stir up bacteria in floodwaters ...