Texans can help prevent the spread of oak wilt by avoiding pruning or wounding oak trees from February through June.

They were not wounds from infection but rather from tissue death or necrosis. Initially, our clinic patients found that if they changed dope "stamps"—something like a brand in the unregulated ...

Generally, brown recluse spider bites are asymptomatic; however, its bite can cause severe skin necrosis. A 62-year-old Libyan woman with diabetes presented to the dermatology clinic with a ...

The "flesh-eating bacterium" can infect patients through wounds on the hands and feet, causing rapid necrosis and multiple organ failure. Death can occur within a few dozen hours of its onset ...

Its bite can cause severe skin necrosis. Another spider type worth mentioning is black widow (Latrodectus). The black spider is tiny, shady black, with a red hourglass mark on its belly ...