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Monsters Inside me is a show on Animal Planet. It is about parasites that infect people and cause terrible symptoms. It is often graphic and hard to watch, as it shows worms and other things inside people’s bodies. Every episode has a different theme. Notably, the focus of the show is on parasites in Americans and America, rather than those that infect people in places such as Asia and the tropics.
In this episode, entitled “Outbreak” the stories all revolve around incidents where many people became ill. The first story is about a medical student who came home from spring break. He soon developed a very severe headache and stiff neck. Rushed to the hospital, it was determined that he was suffering from meningitis, a dangerous condition where
the lining around the brain is swollen, leading to brain damage which is fatal if untreated. Soon all of the friends who went on the trip are ill with this deadly infection. It turns out that the culprit is the dreaded rat lung worm, which has infected these people due to them eating salad that was contaminated with an infected snail or slug.
I was very interested in this story because I love medical dramas. It was a little scary to watch about the man’s symptoms because it is easy to imagine myself in his situation. I had a scare where I thought I had meningitis recently, and I had to go to the hospital to get checked out. So it was easy to relate to the fear ...