As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their ...

Mosquito gut bacteria, parasites, and viruses are the real reason mosquito bites can be so dangerous. A mosquito does not ...

Risky human behavior, not aggression by alligators, is the leading cause of alligator bites, according to a groundbreaking study by scientists at the University of Florida and Centre College in ...

A human bite infected Donnie Adams, 50, with the potentially deadly flesh-eating bacteria A Florida Man is healing after a scary complication from a bite. Donnie Adams of Tampa Bay, Fla. was at a ...

Dec. 4 -- (HealthDay News) -- A human bite can lead to a dangerous infection, just as an animal bite can. About one-third of hand infections are caused by human bite wounds, which can be loaded with ...

When considering the frequency of bites, it’s intriguing to compare those inflicted by sharks worldwide to those by humans in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - As a frame of reference, each animal bite you’ll read about will be measured in pounds per square inch, or PSI. We’ll use the human bite as a baseline, which averages 162 PSI ...

A 53-year-old Florida man was hospitalized after a family member’s bite resulted in the flesh-eating bacteria necrotizing fasciitis, NBC News reported June 9. The patient, Donnie Adams, went to the ...

A New Mexico man faces potentially a decade in federal prison after pleading guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon that resulted in an amputation, officials announced Monday. His choice of weapon ...

HANDS COVERED IN BLOOD AND ADMITTED DID IT. A FIGHT BETWEEN FAMILY MEMBERS ALMOST COST A TAMPA MAN HIS LEG. WESH 2’S MEREDITH MCDONOUGH EXPLAINS HOW HE CONTRACTED AN UNFAIR SECTION FROM FLESH EATING ...