Vibrio vulnificus is moving north. Over the summer, three people in New York and Connecticut died, and an additional person was hospitalized, The New York Times reported, after they contracted Vibrio ...

Eleven people have contracted Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria, and four of them have died from it so far in 2025, according to the Florida Department of Health. The deaths ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced on Sunday that the ...

Recent news reports regarding deaths attributed to a rare flesh-eating bacteria noted that one of the five deaths since Jan. 1 that occurred in Florida was in Sarasota County. Florida Department of ...

Two people in Connecticut have died this summer, and a third became ill, after being infected with a flesh-eating bacteria found in raw shellfish and saltwater — but none of it was associated with ...

UPDATE (10/2/22) -- Most of theshellfish harvesting beds reopened at sunrise on Oct. 2. UPDATE (9/30/22) -- South Carolina Department of Natural Resources officials say the start of the season has ...

One person has died and two have been hospitalized from eating raw shellfish or becoming exposed to the water in Long Island Sound, according to the Connecticut Department of Public Health. The ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Oyster lovers, mark your calendars! The 2024-2025 season for the recreational harvest of shellfish, including clams and oysters, opens in South Carolina’s coastal waters on ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Shellfish lovers, your tide is coming in! The 2024-2025 season for recreational harvest of shellfish (clams and oysters) in coastal waters of South Carolina is set to open one-half ...