A swimmer got a Vibrio vulnificus infection, likely from exposure to coastal water at Old Silver Beach while swimming in Cape ...

The city of Monroe issued a boil water advisory on Wednesday after E. coli was detected in drinking water affecting nine ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is warning residents and visitors about a rare and dangerous bacterium that can ...

Dozens of Massachusetts beaches are closed for swimming because there is either too much bacteria in the water or toxic algae ...

Heading into this weekend, 54 Massachusetts beaches are closed. Here's the full list. The following MA beaches, listed by ...

Life-threatening bacteria found after a person became infected in Massachusetts were also found in the waters at a Buzzards ...

Basil Kennedy died from the waterborne Vibrio bacteria, but his family says there needs to be "education and knowledge," not ...

The area between Brookline Avenue and Avenue Louis Pasteur has a cyanobacteria algae bloom, which has toxins that can harm ...

Low levels of the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease were detected at the county's South Campus in Mohnton, ...

After a rainstorm, beaches typically experience a decline in water quality due to water runoff. Runoff often carries pollutants from land into waterways, and water can pick up bacteria, sediments, ...

We recently reported on the Louisiana Department of Health's warning about Vibrio vulnificus, the flesh-eating bacteria that ...

A deadly “flesh-eating” bacteria is turning up more often in Gulf Coast waters and sometimes in raw oysters. Here’s what to ...