Monsters Inside Me

S05E08 My Body Is Rotting

A teenager experiences a series of alarming symptoms including coughing, shoulder aches, dizziness, and nausea due to a Cryptococcus gattii fungal infection in her lungs. Meanwhile, a saleswoman suffers intense breast pain after being bitten by a brown recluse spider. In another case, a religious youth organizer endures swelling in various areas of the body over a span of three years as a result of an infestation by the Loa loa worm.