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After years of severe stomach pains and other painful symptoms, Jackie discovers she's been suffering from Schistosomiasis, or snail fever.
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Six-and-a-Half Years of Agony
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Only 20 percent of infected individuals will show symptoms of Zika, making it often misdiagnosed. To make matters worse, it can result in devastating birth defects if a woman catches before or during pregnancy.
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The Devastating Effects of the Zika Virus
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Charlye Hebert has been experiencing nausea, vomiting and diarrhea for months. Despite an initial diagnosis and treatment for stomach ulcers, her symptoms have yet to subside.
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Stomach Issues are Hard to Digest
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Doctors and family are stunned when they discover the cause of Kennedy's poor health is due to an extreme allergy to nickel, which can be traced to the metal braces on her teeth.
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How Orthodontic Braces Nearly Killed a Teenager
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Xander's condition takes a devastating turn when his skin starts peeling off his body.
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My Son’s Skin is Falling Off
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Now that doctors know what's wrong with Xander, they put him on life support to give him the best chance of recovery.
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Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Leaves Boy Fighting for His Life
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After spending two months in a coma as a result of a Group A Streptococcus infection, Katy wakes up to the devastating news that all four limbs had to be amputated in order to keep her alive.
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When Amputation is the Only Option
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After complaining about pain on his head, 8-year-old Andrew is rushed to the ER, where doctors remove a botfly larva from his scalp.
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Botfly Larva Lives on Boy’s Scalp for Weeks
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When doctors cannot find anything in his mouth, biology professor John Allen takes matters into his own hands and extracts a rare parasite called Gongylonema pulchrum.
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Biologist Removes Parasite from His Own Mouth
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After suffering from an array of symptoms for months, Al Ceccarelli is diagnosed with Strongyloides, a disease caused by parasitic worms found in tropical climates.
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Thousands of Parasitic Worms Invade the Body
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As soon as doctors make an incision near Paul’s eye, out pops a larva.
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There's Larvae In My Eye!
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An ovarian teratoma removed from Kira’s body featured hair, teeth, tissue and other cells, resulting in her erratic behavior and sickness.
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The Teratoma the Size of a Large Football
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Sam's worsening flu-like symptoms takes him to the emergency room, where his urine indicates something dangerously wrong with his renal system.
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Does Your Urine Look Like Iced Tea?
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With Brianna's head abrasion getting worse, her parents rush her to the ER where a dermatologist hears something terrifying coming from her scalp.
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Something’s Eating Away at My Scalp
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When a high school football star begins to experience odd symptoms, his parents take him to the hospital.
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Football Star’s Fall
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Stephanie noticed her 4-year-old son, Alex, came home with less energy than usual. But what seemed like the result of a long day at school quickly turned into a race to the emergency room.
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Mystery Pains Overtake a 4-Year-Old Boy
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A software programmer is admitted to a hospital and begins to show a strange symptom... speaking only in computer code! His wife fears he has gone insane when doctors discover that he has the most dangerous parasite in the world!
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Speaking in Tongues
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After being born several weeks premature, baby Lillian's development takes a dangerous turn when she begins to suffer from seizures.
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What Started as a Miracle Turns into a Nightmare for a Christmas Baby
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Boil-like legions lead to a diagnosis of lung cancer, just in time for Christmas. But during surgery, doctors are surprised to find a different sort of infection.
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Holiday Hell: Why Is My Abdomen Full of Boils?
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A college student gets an oozing rash that grows rapidly! He thinks it is a staph infection but when it grows to cover most of his arm, he knows something worse is going on!
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Face Eaten Off
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Tara keeps feeling stabbing pains in her scalp, so she investigates the Internet for answers. What she finds is almost unbelievable - botflies. She decides to cut open her scalp.
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Holiday Hell: Removing Botflies For Christmas
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When medicine fails to stop the Cytomegalovirus inside baby Lillian's brain, her parents are forced to make an agonizing decision that could mean life or death for their daugther.
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Can a Baby Survive with Half a Brain?
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A seemingly harmless cat scratch leads to a rash that feels "alive"! A dermatologist confirms that the rash is really a case of hookworm and if it isn't stopped soon, it could turn deadly!
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Worms Crawling Under My Skin
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A trip through South America takes a deadly detour when Adam develops a wound on the side of his face. See how an insect bite developed into Leishmaniasis.
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Monsters Inside Me Case Studies – Leishmaniasis
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After suffering from seizures, Dawn discovers she has a pork tapeworm in her brain. To make matters worse, the only way to remove it will be to undergo brain surgery while AWAKE.
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All I Got For Christmas Was a Tapeworm and Brain Surgery
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Holistic doctor Tom has been reluctant to see an ER physician about his growing rash. It isn't until he wakes up to a horrifying discovery that his girlfriend, Dee, forces him to take action.
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A Bloody, Pus-Filled Rash Goes From Bad to Worse
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What started as a strained back turned into something more sinister for Jeremiah. Take a closer look at the symptoms of rat bite fever.
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Monsters Inside Me Case Studies – Rat Bite Fever
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When a fifteen-year-old girl develops symptoms of mood swings, headaches, fainting and seizures, her doctors must rush to find the cause. However, it's only after she passes that the true source of the infection is found.
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Teen's Mysterious Infection Leads From Headaches to Seizures to Death
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After it is discovered that 8-year-old Jade has a toxocara parasite living behind her eyeball, doctors are forced to perform risky surgery.
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When Invasive Eye Surgery is the Only Option
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Suffering from flu-like symptoms, a pregnant woman rushes to the hospital for treatment. After battling a secondary lung infection, she awakens from a coma & meets her 2-month-old son who was born prematurely to save both their lives.
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Pregnant Woman On Life Support After Unknown Infection Shuts Down Her Lungs
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After increasingly worse symptoms with her vision, this patient discovers there’s something in her eye and it’s not dirt.
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There’s Something Eating This Woman’s Eye
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Bizarre white growths in this man’s hand end up being barnacles! But how did they get there?
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Man Has Barnacle Growing Inside His Hand
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