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Toxoplasma Parasite

The Toxoplasma parasite, which is nearly indestructible, enters the body when humans ingest infected cat feces. It can do serious damage to a weakened immune system, eating the body's tissues from the inside out.

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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.WWW

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Something Left Inside

A dream vacation to South America becomes a nightmare when a man's face begins to be eaten away by a parasite.WWW

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Man's Face is Eaten Alive

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.WWW

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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.WWW

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Holiday Hell: Why Is My Abdomen Full of Boils?

Found in contaminated food and water, Entamoeba histolytica is a parasite that feeds on living cells in the human gut.WWW

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Entamoeba histolytica

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.WWW

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Really Bad Sushi

A disease begins eating a boy's face from the inside, forcing doctors to begin removing the infected flesh to save his life.WWW

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Boy Eaten Inside Out

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.WWW

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Bubonic Plague Eats Man Alive

Leishmaniasis kills skin cells in mass numbers, causing prominent skin sores. In extreme cases, it attacks the face itself, leaving the victim disfigured.WWW

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Leishmaniasis and Skin Sores

The Leishmania parsite feeds directly on the vital organs from the inside-out. It's spread through infected sand flies.WWW

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The Leishmania Parasite

Acanthamoeba is a voracious parasite that enters the body through the skin or the nose, then devours brain cells.WWW

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The Acanthamoeba Parasite

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!WWW

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Tapeworm In My Brain

Even dead, the larvae of parasitic roundworms can cause river blindness, or Onchocerciasis. These parasites are transmitted through the saliva of blackflies.WWW

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River Blindness

Burrowing through the skin and internal organs, gnathostoma worms can eventually cause paralysis and death.WWW

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Gnathostoma Worms

The pork tapeworm is a particularly vicious parasite because it can end up in the most important organ in the human body: the brain.WWW

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Pork Tapeworm in Brain

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.WWW

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Unclean sheets and linens carry human scabies mites, which feed on human skin, causing intense itching. The condition is called scabies, or simply "the itch."WWW

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Acanthamoeba is a voracious parasite that enters the body through the skin or the nose, then devours brain cells.WWW

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The Acanthamoeba Parasite

Found in contaminated food and water, Entamoeba histolytica is a parasite that feeds on living cells in the human gut.WWW

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A young woman contracts a parasite, Trichinella spiralis, after eating infected meat. The condition, called trichinosis, can cause paralysis as the worms burrow through her muscles.WWW

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Worms Burrow Through Flesh

Even dead, the larvae of parasitic roundworms can cause river blindness, or Onchocerciasis. These parasites are transmitted through the saliva of blackflies.WWW

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River Blindness

Found inside undercooked wild game and pork, Trichanella spiralis is a parasitic worm that can cut through human muscles and tissue.WWW

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Trichanella Spiralis

The Leishmania parsite feeds directly on the vital organs from the inside-out. It's spread through infected sand flies.WWW

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The Leishmania Parasite

Malaria is the deadliest parasitic disease on the planet, causing nearly a million deaths a year.WWW

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The Deadliest Parasitic Disease

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!WWW

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Tapeworm In My Brain

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Some of the most horrifying creatures on the planet are ones that are too small to see! Get a glimpse of these monsters in the new show "Monsters Inside Me", premiering Wednesday, July 1 at 9 p.m. only on Animal Planet!WWW

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Burrowing through the skin and internal organs, gnathostoma worms can eventually cause paralysis and death.WWW

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Gnathostoma Worms

After taking a trip to a local water park, a man is fighting for his life while a parasite eats his intestines from the inside out.WWW

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Eaten From the Inside

Anisakis worms, common in marine mammals, don't fair so well in the human body. The dead worms can create an inflammatory condition in the gut called Anisakiasis.WWW

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Armed with jagged teeth used to hook onto its host, the hookworm can be transmitted from your household cat onto a human.WWW

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