TOP UK doctors have warned of a rise in dangerous flesh-eating infections affecting the vulva. Detailing cases in a new ...

Most group A strep infections cause mild illnesses like strep throat — but when that bacteria spreads to the blood and deep ...

Doctors in the U.K. have warned gynecologists of the risks of necrotizing fasciitis in the external genitalia after seeing several cases.

While the appearance of this infection might resemble freshly-chewed flesh, the bacteria aren’t actually eating it away. Once this destruction starts, it can rapidly spread and trigger other ...

S trep infections are most well known for causing strep throat, which can be treated with antibiotics. But this type of ...

Necrotising fasciitis is a rare and life-threatening infection that can appear anywhere skin or tissue is breached, including ...

Doctors in the UK have warned that several cases of a dangerous 'flesh-eating' bacterial infection affecting the external ...

An inquest has opened into the death of a Southampton woman who died in hospital following treatment. Chantelle Sparshott, 36, of Howard Road, Southampton, died at Southampton General Hospital on ...

The bacterium is called flesh-eating because it causes necrosis of ... The bacterium often enters the bloodstream and spinal fluid where bacteria cannot normally be detected.

Twenty cases of the flesh-eating infection had been reported between 2022 and 2024 alone, in comparison to 18 cases that were ...