Flesh eating bacteria have infected at least five men who were exposed to water in the Delaware Bay or who had eaten under cooked crabs from the bay since 2017. Researchers at Cooper University Health Care, where the men were treated, say the number of cases is increasing, though still relatively rare.

In an article being published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the researchers caution that climate change could be a factor in the uptick.

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