Simon, a retired fireman, from Beverley, Yorkshire, said: "It's quite scary when you think about this bug, really - I now ... also known as the "flesh-eating disease" is a rare and life ...

Before he had millions of flesh-eating beetles, Ron Sheldon's taste in insects was more conventional. "I've always been a bee person. I grew up with bees," said Sheldon, a native of northern ...

A MAN who woke up thinking he had a cold later found he’d contracted a bacterial infection that results in the death of parts ...

A new mother has said she hopes to raise awareness of a flesh-eating disease that nearly killed her. Charleigh Chatterton, 27, gave birth to her daughter Alessia in Colchester on 22 April with no ...

Louise Fawcett, 58, was diagnosed with necrotising fasciitis - described by the NHS as a "flesh-eating disease" - after cutting her foot in her garden in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She required six ...

A mum who had a "healthy and normal" pregnancy was left fighting for her life after developing a flesh-eating bug during her emergency C-section. Amber DeWitt, 31, from Dallas, US, had to undergo ...

Health officials in Glasgow have issued an alert after two cases of a rare flesh-eating bug were diagnosed among drug users. They said the cases of necrotising fasciitis had come to light in the ...

The female fly lays hundreds of eggs on the exposed flesh of warm-blooded animals ... Pilots now make 1,600km round trips to drop the barren insects over northern Nicaragua.