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The Rat Lungworm The rat lungworm is one of the most feared parasites on the planet. It travels in the blood to the edge of the brain, then bursts through the brain's defensive lining, causing hemorrhaging and tissue damage. | Monsters Inside Me | 01:56 | July 08, 2009 | 35304 |
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Flesh-Eating Hookworm Armed with jagged teeth used to hook onto its host, the hookworm can be transmitted from your household cat onto a human. | Monsters Inside Me | 02:07 | June 25, 2010 | 373088 |
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Bedbugs Feed on Arm To prove how quickly bedbugs can feed and multiply, Dr. Louis Sorkin tries an experiment... on his own arm! Watch bedbug nymphs engorge themselves with Dr. Sorkin's blood. | Monsters Inside Me | 02:26 | July 15, 2009 | 49837 |
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Bedbugs, Food and Sex For bedbugs, food and sex are intrinsically linked; bedbugs cannot mate unless they've just had a blood meal. They also have a super-weird way of having sex: traumatic insemination. | Monsters Inside Me | 02:02 | July 15, 2009 | 94378 |
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Eaten From the Inside 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. | Monsters Inside Me | 02:27 | June 09, 2010 | 30043 |
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Tapeworm In My Brain 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! | Monsters Inside Me | 02:20 | June 09, 2010 | 214504 |
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Dead Worms Block Gut 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. | Monsters Inside Me | 02:26 | June 09, 2010 | 27996 |
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River Blindness Even dead, the larvae of parasitic roundworms can cause river blindness, or Onchocerciasis. These parasites are transmitted through the saliva of blackflies. | Monsters Inside Me | 02:11 | June 09, 2010 | 43488 |
Video Added: July 08, 2009
Views: 35304
Runtime: 01:56
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