Health Tip: Infections May Strike Bones

(HealthDay News) -- Osteomyelitis is a bone infection usually caused by bacteria or, less often, a fungus.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine says these factors increase your risk of developing osteomyelitis:

• Being diabetic.
• Undergoing hemodialysis.
• Injecting drugs.
• Having a poor supply of blood.
• Having had a recent trauma.