Depicts what happens when people fall prey to an infection from a parasite, those nasty microscopic creatures found in water, soil and even in the air. Victims' stories are retold, including how doctors and scientists attempt to unravel each case before it's too late. Biologist Dan Riskin, assisted by doctors and experts who witnessed each case, leads the scientific discussion about each parasite.
An adventurous traveler, Adam Spencer takes an epic six month trip across South America but returns home with an unwanted monster... a mysterious infection that is devouring his face. Will doctors be able to identify this disfiguring monster?
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Watch Now:AmazoniTunesThree mothers, each with a child to love; each at the brink of losing them. A young Peace Corps volunteer gets the assignment of her dreams in a remote village in West Africa. But, her dreams become a nightmare when a deadly organism strikes her.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesA schoolteacher deals with an amoeba that eats at his liver and causes him high fever, abdominal pain, sweating, and chills. A young dancer gets worms from eating contaminated pork in her muscle tissue, causing her to get hives all over her body and her limbs to become stiff and painful. A retiree gets scabies from mites he got from staying in the hospital in the past.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesA baby is having problems controlling the left side of her body, before doctors discover the right side of her brain is malformed; a PR executive suffers a mysterious ailment over the course of an entire year; seizures ruin a schoolteacher's Thanksgiving, and they worsen around Christmas.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesA peace volunteer deals with a leech in his nose, which gives him a strange nosebleed. A nature-loving landscaper gets a severe allergic reaction when he gets multiple bee stings at once and infects himself with the hookworm parasite to relieve his symptoms. A six-year-old girl gets a strange red spot on her foot from having a maggot in her foot.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesA fit and active dance instructor is suddenly stopped in her tracks by unbearable abdominal pain and vomiting, and a mysterious mass in her colon is revealed to have decaying worms. A middle-aged banker gets seizures from a parasite he picked up from traveling to his home country, Haiti. A scientist finds worms from Africa that threaten to damage his sight living in his skin and eyes.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesA teenaged ballerina descends into a downward spiral of debilitating migraines and incapacitating muscle failures. A young missionary who's dedicated to religion experiences an unholy revelation that literally makes his skin crawl.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesThe lives of three young people are suddenly turned upside down. In South Dakota, what begins as a common sore throat quickly spirals out of control for a fifteen year old girl, as a rare and dangerous affliction leaves her clinging to life.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesIn Fontana, California, a man is suddenly struck by two mystifying symptoms - a swollen face and yellow eyes. Doctors tell his father that powerful infection is raging throughout his son's body, shutting down his organs.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesParasites are ruthless, single-minded and above all devious. To become the most prolific life forms in the world takes a degree of cunning that others can only marvel at. Meet the most deceptive parasites on the planet, the "Masters of Disguise." Teenager Mallorie Greiner has Acanthamoeba keratitis, a parasite that's intent on eating her cornea. Doctors are bewildered at first because her symptoms look just like herpes. Runner Rick DiMichele is struck down with a debilitating disease. Initially, doctors think it's cancer, then malaria; eventually, they discover he has a tick-borne disease called Babesiosis. And not until he's staring death in the face do Mohammed Meah's doctors find the real cause of his problem: a parasitic worm called Strongyloides that's been lurking undetected in his small intestine and living off the steroids he was taking to combat his colitis.
Watch Now:AmazonA seven-year-old girl suffers from mysterious seizures and painful rashes and winds up in a deadly coma. A a yoga-loving college graduate's health spirals viciously out of control when "the flu" turns out to be a flesh-eating monster.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunes3 women living in vastly different locales have one thing in common: they've become unwitting hosts to baffling and deadly terrors. A teenage girl thinks she might be losing her mind, but see soon realizes she has a life threatening inflammation of the brain.
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesIn Arlington, Texas, a 7 year old budding baseball star might be playing his last game when a rare and mysterious infection takes over his brain. Suffering violent and uncontrollable seizures, the situation leaves his parents traumatized. Will he make it?
Watch Now:AmazoniTunesThese killers lie dormant, waiting for the right time to strike. Eleven-month-old Garrett Richardson ingests the eggs of a worm, and within days the creature travels to his brain and goes about feeding on its tissue. A Vietnam veteran survived the enemy attacks on the front lines, but back at home — unknown to him — a killer is stealthily working its way through his body, laying waste to his organs and lymph system. By the time the medical evidence reveals the source many years later, the killer is long gone. And John Figge and many of his family members live for six years with unwanted hitchhikers from Africa traveling around in their bodies. Only when one of these creatures begins to attack John's brain are they discovered. Can the family get rid of these deadly parasites before the damage is critical? These are all stealthy predators that get inside their hosts, yet work on very different timetables. Dangerous and often hard to detect, this is the story of the war on sleeper cell parasites.
Watch Now:AmazonA young mother is expecting her second child when she suddenly is hit with a devastating infection that leaves her in a coma. Will she and her baby survive? Then a young woman in Texas discovers that her lungs are filled with parasitic worms.
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