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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New Mom's Elation is Interrupted by Mysterious Pains
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Congratulations, it's a Surgical Sponge!
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When a teenager named Jordan begins to experience repiratory issues, his Mom races him to the hospital. Doctors diagnose him with a type of pneumonia … and both Jordan and his parents are forced to face the possibility of death.
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When Your Lungs Look "Fluffy" on the Insides
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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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A teenager named Jordan's contracted the deadly Hantavirus - a dangerous virus that can be contracted from infected mice.
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Coming Back to Life After Your Heart Stops for Six Minutes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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