After years of severe stomach pains and other painful symptoms, Jackie discovers she's been suffering from Schistosomiasis, or snail fever.

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.

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.

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.

Xander's condition takes a devastating turn when his skin starts peeling off his body.

Now that doctors know what's wrong with Xander, they put him on life support to give him the best chance of recovery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As soon as doctors make an incision near Paul’s eye, out pops a larva.

An ovarian teratoma removed from Kira’s body featured hair, teeth, tissue and other cells, resulting in her erratic behavior and sickness.

Sam's worsening flu-like symptoms takes him to the emergency room, where his urine indicates something dangerously wrong with his renal system.

With Brianna's head abrasion getting worse, her parents rush her to the ER where a dermatologist hears something terrifying coming from her scalp.

When a high school football star begins to experience odd symptoms, his parents take him to the hospital.

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.

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!

After being born several weeks premature, baby Lillian's development takes a dangerous turn when she begins to suffer from seizures.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

What started as a strained back turned into something more sinister for Jeremiah. Take a closer look at the symptoms of rat bite fever.

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.

After it is discovered that 8-year-old Jade has a toxocara parasite living behind her eyeball, doctors are forced to perform risky surgery.

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.

After increasingly worse symptoms with her vision, this patient discovers there’s something in her eye and it’s not dirt.

Bizarre white growths in this man’s hand end up being barnacles! But how did they get there?