Stronger and more mobile than ever, humankind's oldest enemies - lethal micro-parasites - may very well be threatening the survival of the human race. Some were believed to have been eradicated from the industrialized world, only to reappear in drug...
This program contrasts pernicious and benign parasites through four case studies: a flesh-eating organism that nearly causes the facial disfigurement of a young woman; a mysterious malaria attack contracted by an American man who has never traveled ...
Lethal parasites kill one human every ten seconds. Others prefer to keep people alive, for food and shelter. In this program, patients discuss their encounters with botfly maggots, leeches, candiru fish, elephantiasis, tapeworms and cerebral tapewor...