Only around 0.4 people per 100,000 are infected to the point of necrotizing fasciitis each year in the U.S. CDC data shows that, since 2010, there were between 700 and 1,150 cases of necrotizing ...

Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," can have horrifying and even fatal effects on humans. Symptoms, how to avoid it.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics may be initiated and then rewritten as culture and sensitivity reports become available ... Necrotizing Fasciitis: Pathophysiology and Treatment - Medscape - Oct 01, 2002.

Necrotizing fasciitis can progress quickly, producing ulcers, blisters, skin discoloration and pus. Treating flesh-eating bacteria is a race against time. Clinicians administer antibiotics ...

Necrotizing fasciitis can quickly develop soon after. If not treated promptly with antibiotics, the infection can become fatal. But more often, the bacteria are ingested in raw or undercooked ...

Eleven people in Florida have been infected with Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "fleshing-eating" bacteria, including 2 in ...

More rarely, people can get necrotizing fasciitis after a bruise or trauma that does not break the skin. ... Treatment typically involves antibiotics and surgery to remove the infected tissue.

The best known of these, necrotizing fasciitis or “flesh-eating disease,” can quickly damage tissue severely enough to require limb amputation to control its spread. About 20% of patients with ...

Zach Rowland, 17, of Atasacadero was recently diagnosed with an extraordinarily rare disease: necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacteria. He has undergone more than 10 surgeries at Valley ...