Father-son triathletes, Jeff and Johnny Agar competed in the prestigious IRONMAN World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. They received an official invitation by legendary Hall of Fame quarterback ...

Vibrio vulnificusa is a naturally occurring, potentially fatal bacterial infection present in brackish water. During tropical storms sea water is pushed along the coast and into rivers and canals ...

YOU SAY THERE IS A SPECIFIC ILLNESS HERE RELATED TO THE STORM, RIGHT? VIBRIO. SO VIBRIO IS SOMETHING THAT WE’VE SEEN WITH PREVIOUS HURRICANES BEFORE BACK IN 2022 WITH HURRICANE IAN. WHEN THEY ...

A crowd favorite will be Team Agar. Seven years after they were pulled off the Kona course, Johnny Agar, a Rockford man with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair, and his father Jeff are getting ...

The Vibrio family of bacteria is well-known, and Kim said the most well-known is the cholera-causing Vibrio cholerae. But the vulnificus variety is also known as a flesh-eating bacteria. “If it’s ...

Credit: Florida Fish and Wildlife, Flickr “The Florida Department of Health urges residents and visitors to avoid floodwaters and prevent exposure to Vibrio in anticipation of flooding and heavy ...

No. Cholera is a distinct diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with a different species of vibrio, V. cholerae bacteria. Modern water and sewage treatment systems have largely wiped ...

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a facultative intracellular pathogen that uses its type 3 secretion system 2 (T3SS2) to invade and replicate inside host cells. Analysis of the T3SS2 pathogenicity island ...