Monsters Inside Me
Monsters Inside Me
Monsters Inside Me
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After a woman suffers having cysts surgically removed from her right breast, things get even worse when surgical sponges are accidentally left inside of her.
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Something Left Inside
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A dream vacation to South America becomes a nightmare when a man's face begins to be eaten away by a parasite.
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Man's Face is Eaten Alive
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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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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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Found in contaminated food and water, Entamoeba histolytica is a parasite that feeds on living cells in the human gut.
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Entamoeba histolytica
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After eating some raw sushi, a woman begins a fight for her life as a mass containing parasitic worms creates a blockage in her colon. The woman has Anisakiasis, a disease caused by Anisakis worms.
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Really Bad Sushi
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A disease begins eating a boy's face from the inside, forcing doctors to begin removing the infected flesh to save his life.
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Boy Eaten Inside Out
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A happily married couple's trip to New York becomes a nightmare when they learn that they have been infected with the Bubonic Plague, not only putting their lives in danger but anyone who comes into contact with them.
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Bubonic Plague Eats Man Alive
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Leishmaniasis kills skin cells in mass numbers, causing prominent skin sores. In extreme cases, it attacks the face itself, leaving the victim disfigured.
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Leishmaniasis and Skin Sores
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The Leishmania parsite feeds directly on the vital organs from the inside-out. It's spread through infected sand flies.
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The Leishmania Parasite
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Acanthamoeba is a voracious parasite that enters the body through the skin or the nose, then devours brain cells.
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The Acanthamoeba Parasite
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While swimming with a friend a man has a seizure and collapses. Shortly after, he finds out that a pork tapeworm has been slowly eating away at his brain!
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Tapeworm In My Brain
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Even dead, the larvae of parasitic roundworms can cause river blindness, or Onchocerciasis. These parasites are transmitted through the saliva of blackflies.
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River Blindness
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Burrowing through the skin and internal organs, gnathostoma worms can eventually cause paralysis and death.
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Gnathostoma Worms
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The pork tapeworm is a particularly vicious parasite because it can end up in the most important organ in the human body: the brain.
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Pork Tapeworm in Brain
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A fitness fanatic cannot understand why he is too fatigued to work out until he learns an infection in his colon has created a tear, causing e-coli to spread through his body.
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E-coli Invades Body
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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