Season 2
10 episodes · Jun 9, 2010
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- S2E1
Suicide Attackers
Jun 9, 2010A 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.
- S2E2
Feeding Frenzy
Jun 16, 201047mA 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.
- S2E3
Cold Blooded Killers
Jun 23, 201047mA nine-year-old hockey player comes down with encephalitis from the Acanthamoeba, which causes him to lose his concentration and balance, almost killing him. A computer programmer gets severe malaria from the Plasmodium parasite that makes him lose control of his mind and post-malarial neurological symptoms two weeks after an apparent recovery. A marathon runner deals with Leishmaniasis, which causes his spleen to swell.
- S2E4
Lurkers
Jul 7, 201047mThe Crytosporidium parasite infects a little girl, causing her severe vomiting and diarrhea. A microscopic amoeba kills a firefighter with an autoimmune disorder by causing him meningitis. A rare, vicious tapeworm detaches the retina in a teenaged girl, destroying vision in her left eye.
- S2E5
Flesh Eaters
Jul 14, 2010A cat scratch leads to a horrifying result for a veterinary volunteer; strange liquid oozes from a college student's arm.
- S2E6
Stowaways
Jul 28, 201060mStories of parasites that reside inside their traveling hosts; an Iraq war veteran pulls a foot-long worm from his body.
- S2E7
Breeders
Aug 4, 201047mDaily stomach cramps reveal some of the most common parasites in nature.
- S2E8
Double Agents
Aug 11, 201047mA man tries hookworms to cure his allergies; a bloodsuckers gets into a writer's nose.
- S2E9
Homegrown Enemies
Aug 18, 201047mA middle-aged man who has been caring for his ailing mother gets Babesiosis from walking barefoot to the mailbox. Since he lost his spleen from cancer, he gets severe diarrhea, in addition to fever, fatigue, and night sweats. An active, busy middle-aged woman experiences stomach cramps, explosive diarrhea, lightheadedness, and blurred vision from the Toxocara parasite, which she probably got from contaminated food. An older mother of five children deals with nausea, loss of appetite, muscle spasms, and vomiting from the Strongyloides worm, which she may have picked up from being in contact with infected soil. Because of steroids she took for her breathing problems, her body became more vulnerable to the parasite.
- S2E10
Shape Shifters
Aug 25, 2010A seven-year-old girl suffers from seizures from a pork tapeworm after being adopted at the age of three from Nepal. A forty-five-year-old machinist deals with blurry and double vision, leaving him legally blind in his left eye, from a raccoon roundworm that he picked up from his turkey hunting. A forty-one-year-old anaethesiologists, along with twenty-eight other anaethesiologists from two different counties, suffer from stomach cramps and crippling diarrhea from the Cyclospora parasite after eating raspberries infected with human feces.