flesh eating bacteria

Five people have died after coming into contact with flesh-eating bacteria in Louisiana waters this summer, and health officials say the risk is far from over.

Eleven cases in Florida, a hospitalization in Mississippi, and now Louisiana health officials are posting advisories at twelve local beaches. That's a lot of warnings in a short stretch of time.

A Gulf Coast fisherman never even went in the water — and still ended up in the hospital fighting a flesh-eating bacteria infection after a day of fishing off Cat Island.

Fishermen and boaters in Louisiana and along the Gulf Coast are being advised to exercise extreme caution after reports of a deadly flesh-eating bacteria was found lurking in the waters.

Flesh-eating bacteria is showing up in Louisiana waters about six weeks earlier than normal this year.