Monsters Inside Me: Maggots In My Head
A botfly lays maggots inside a man's head, providing shelter and nutrition for its young but a horrifying scenario for the human host.
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Monsters Inside Me (02:26)
A botfly lays maggots inside a man's head, providing shelter and nutrition for its young but a horrifying scenario for the human host.
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After nearly collapsing at a family picnic, a woman is told that she has cysts on her brain. It turns out the cysts are caused by a tapeworm that has grown over a meter long!
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Lymphatic filariasis is caused by a thread-like roundworm called W. bancrofti. It causes painful swelling, which at its most extreme can manifest as elephantiasis.
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis manifests as painful sores that could, if infected, lead to death. It's caused by a flesh-eating parasite that may now be raging just outside of Dallas, Texas - a city of six million people.
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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!
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Using your unwormed puppy as its host, the toxocara parasite enters the human digestive system in search of easy meals, but can spread out and end up feeding on your retina.
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The pork tapeworm creates cysts in human tissue, even the brain, making it virtually impossible to kill. Contracted from infected pork or human feces, this deadly parasite can grow several feet in length.
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When a young boy ingests dirt infected by the toxocara parasite he is in danger of losing his sight. Can doctors stop the onslaught of toxocariasis before it blinds him completely?
Monsters Inside Me (02:23)
The brain-eating amoeba, which is found in over 70% of U.S. lakes, hijacks the human brain in its hunt for food and shelter.
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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.
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A parasitic worm called strongyloides (or threadworm) has taken up residence inside a man's bowels, swelling them to twice the normal size.
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Contracted from infected mosquitos, malaria is one of the most successful human parasites. It travels from host-to-host through insects, destroying red blood cells as it multiplies.
What happens when humans fall prey to parasites? Explore the shocking, gruesome and sometimes deadly details of parasitic infection.
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