MARK Brooks was left fighting for his life after a sore throat triggered a flesh-eating disease with a 20 per cent mortality ...

A terrifying new strain of flesh-eating bug that kills one in four of those it invasively infects is spreading around the world, evidence suggests. The group A streptococcus bacteria have caused a ...

Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, found in warm coastal waters, have caused deaths in North Carolina and Florida. Naegleria fowleri, known as the "brain-eating amoeba," lives in freshwater and can cause ...

A Scots mum who beat a flesh-eating bug believes she has been given a “second chance at life" after becoming a nurse. Ashley Sneddon was rushed to critical care in March 2020 after contracting ...