Monsters Inside Me
Monsters Inside Me
Monsters Inside Me
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It's an agonizing process to remove these creatures.
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What Do You Do When Barnacles Are Growing In Your Hand?
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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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Monsters Inside Me
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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Monsters Inside Me
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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Monsters Inside Me
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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When an Iraq war veteran comes home, he is surprised but pleased to see he is losing weight. Nothing could prepare him for the shock of pulling a foot-long tapeworm out of his rectum!
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Worm In My Butt
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After spending a few days at a hospital, a man discovers an unsettling rash on his skin. As the days pass the rash begins to cover the majority of his body... doctors race to find out the cause before it's too late!
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Eaten Alive by Bugs
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Malaria is the deadliest parasitic disease on the planet, causing nearly a million deaths a year.
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The Deadliest Parasitic Disease
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An elite athlete begins to rapidly lose weight when doctors discover his spleen has grown to five times the normal size. It's a race against time before his spleen ruptures!
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Hijacked Blood Cells
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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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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."
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Scabies Mites and the Itch
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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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Monsters Inside Me
Tapeworm In My Brain
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Burrowing through the skin and internal organs, gnathostoma worms can eventually cause paralysis and death.
01:52
Monsters Inside Me
Gnathostoma Worms
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The Leishmania parsite feeds directly on the vital organs from the inside-out. It's spread through infected sand flies.
01:31
Monsters Inside Me
The Leishmania Parasite
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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.
01:55
Monsters Inside Me
Pork Tapeworm in Brain
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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.
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Flesh-Eating Hookworm
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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.
02:11
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River Blindness
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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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Found inside undercooked wild game and pork, Trichanella spiralis is a parasitic worm that can cut through human muscles and tissue.
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Trichanella Spiralis
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What happens when humans fall prey to parasites? Explore the shocking, gruesome and sometimes deadly details of parasitic infection on Monsters Inside Me. Returns Friday, Oct. 5 at 8PM E/P!
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All New Season Returns Oct. 5
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