Monsters Inside Me
| Monsters Inside Me | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Medical |
| Directed by | Kyle McCabe, Alexis Siggers, Sally Freeman, Ed Hambleton |
| Presented by | Dan Riskin |
| Narrated by | Justin Peed |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 63 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Nicola Moody Erin Wanner Dominic Stobart |
| Producer(s) | Kyle McCabe |
| Running time | 45 min. |
| Production company(s) | Optomen Productions |
| Distributor | Animal Planet and Discovery Channel |
| Release | |
| Original network | Animal Planet |
| Original release | July 1, 2009 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Bugs, Bites & Parasites |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Monsters Inside Me is an American television documentary series about infectious diseases. It includes first-person interviews with people and medical professionals telling their personal stories about contracting rare diseases. Interviews with contributors are shot on location across North America. Recreations are mostly filmed in hospitals and homes in New York City.
Each episode has dramatizations that show illnesses caused by an infectious disease or medical affliction. Once the agent has been identified, their life cycles and general behaviors are illustrated. Justin Peed is the narrator, and biologist Dan Riskin explains how and why each infectious agent works inside its host. Most shows start as a common diagnosed disease but then transform into a different life-threatening or serious disease, which will be cured most time at the end. Out of the 183 cases documented on the show, only 11 of those ended in the victim dying, usually from a disease with an extremely low survival rate.
The show's first two seasons focused solely on parasites and parasitic infections, but since the third season, the show has shifted from being just about parasites to being about general infectious diseases and medical afflictions, including those caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and foreign objects.
The second season premiered on Wednesday June 9, 2010 and then returned for a third season on October 5, 2012. As of January 7, 2011, Monsters Inside Me was broadcast in Canada by Discovery Science. It also airs on Discovery in the UK, and broadcasts in different languages on various Discovery networks across the world.
Six seasons have been produced and completed airing, while a seventh season is currently still premiering.
A 13-year-old boy gets a cut on his leg that nearly leads to amputation when it becomes infected with Staphylococcus aureus; a couple move into their new home, but over the course of three years, the husband suffers a spreading/oozing rash, poor coordination, body aches, breathing difficulties, and weight loss, while his girlfriend suffers memory loss, fatigue, and suicidal depression from chronic low grade carbon monoxide poisoning; an 8-year-old girl from Hawaii gets a growing mass in her eye from Toxocara canis.
Mike Hale of The New York Times said that "there’s science amid the frightening stories" and said that the series "really grossed him out."
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