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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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Flesh-Eating HookwormMonsters Inside Me (02:07)
Armed with jagged teeth used to hook onto its host, the hookworm can be transmitted from your household cat onto a human. -
Tapeworm In My BrainMonsters Inside Me (02:20)
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! -
Bedbugs, Food and SexMonsters Inside Me (02:02)
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. -
Scabies Mites and the ItchMonsters Inside Me (01:26)
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." -
Gnathostoma WormsMonsters Inside Me (01:52)
Burrowing through the skin and internal organs, gnathostoma worms can eventually cause paralysis and death. -
Leishmaniasis and Skin SoresMonsters Inside Me (02:03)
Leishmaniasis kills skin cells in mass numbers, causing prominent skin sores. In extreme cases, it attacks the face itself, leaving the victim disfigured. -
The 40-Year ParasiteMonsters Inside Me (02:04)
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. -
River BlindnessMonsters Inside Me (02:11)
Even dead, the larvae of parasitic roundworms can cause river blindness, or Onchocerciasis. These parasites are transmitted through the saliva of blackflies. -
Entamoeba histolyticaMonsters Inside Me (01:46)
Found in contaminated food and water, Entamoeba histolytica is a parasite that feeds on living cells in the human gut. -
Speaking in TonguesMonsters Inside Me (02:36)
A software programmer is admitted to a hospital where he begins 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! -
Pork Tapeworm in BrainMonsters Inside Me (01:55)
The pork tapeworm is a particularly vicious parasite because it can end up in the most important organ in the human body: the brain. -
Worms In My EyeMonsters Inside Me (02:01)
A case of extremely itchy skin leads a man to the doctor, where he learns that he has a parasite that can cause river blindness.
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