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The Worst Episodes of Monsters Inside Me

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S2E2 Feeding Frenzy
5.912 votes
Best episode
S3E7 I Coughed Up Worms!
9.56 votes
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Season 6
9.0avg
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Monsters Inside Me Season 2 Episode 2 - Feeding Frenzy
    5.9/10(12 votes)

    S2:E2

    A 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.

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  2. Monsters Inside Me Season 1 Episode 5 - Hijackers
    6.2/10(14 votes)

    S1:E5

    Nature is a war zone and parasites are the ultimate fighters. They are hungry, they are ruthless and they don't play by the rules. Parasites have evolved countless ways of hijacking their hosts' bodies: some steal food from inside the gut, others lurk in the blood sapping their host's nutrients and some even target their host's brain. These are some of the most horrific cases of parasitic infection in the United States. In Virginia a vicious creature is on the rampage, its next victim is an innocent child. In Michigan a brutal killer has invaded a traveler's blood, and a summer's day at a Florida lake turns into a nightmare when a ruthless monster attacks a young boy's brain.

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  3. Monsters Inside Me Season 2 Episode 5 - Flesh Eaters
    6.2/10(10 votes)

    S2:E5

    A cat scratch leads to a horrifying result for a veterinary volunteer; strange liquid oozes from a college student's arm.

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  4. Monsters Inside Me Season 2 Episode 6 - Stowaways
    6.1/10(8 votes)

    S2:E6

    Stories of parasites that reside inside their traveling hosts; an Iraq war veteran pulls a foot-long worm from his body.

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  5. Monsters Inside Me Season 2 Episode 4 - Lurkers
    6.6/10(10 votes)

    S2:E4

    The 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.

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  6. Monsters Inside Me Season 1 Episode 4 - Masters of Disguise
    6.9/10(16 votes)

    S1:E4

    Parasites are ruthless, single-minded and above all devious. To become the most prolific life forms in the world takes a degree of cunning that others can only marvel at. Meet the most deceptive parasites on the planet, the "Masters of Disguise." Teenager Mallorie Greiner has Acanthamoeba keratitis, a parasite that's intent on eating her cornea. Doctors are bewildered at first because her symptoms look just like herpes. Runner Rick DiMichele is struck down with a debilitating disease. Initially, doctors think it's cancer, then malaria; eventually, they discover he has a tick-borne disease called Babesiosis. And not until he's staring death in the face do Mohammed Meah's doctors find the real cause of his problem: a parasitic worm called Strongyloides that's been lurking undetected in his small intestine and living off the steroids he was taking to combat his colitis.

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  7. Monsters Inside Me Season 2 Episode 9 - Homegrown Enemies
    6.5/10(7 votes)

    S2:E9

    A 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.

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  8. Monsters Inside Me Season 2 Episode 7 - Breeders
    6.8/10(10 votes)

    S2:E7

    Daily stomach cramps reveal some of the most common parasites in nature.

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  9. Monsters Inside Me Season 1 Episode 6 - Living with the Enemy
    7.0/10(14 votes)

    S1:E6

    In Virginia a young woman is attacked by an invincible brain-eating monster that threatens to take her life. A Midwestern farmer does battle with a beast that cannot be killed and a New Yorker is infected with the deadliest parasite on the planet. Three parasites that are almost impossible to destroy; three victims, fighting for their lives. If doctors cannot cure them their only hope of survival is by living with the enemy inside them.

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  10. Monsters Inside Me Season 2 Episode 8 - Double Agents
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    S2:E8

    A man tries hookworms to cure his allergies; a bloodsuckers gets into a writer's nose.

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  11. Monsters Inside Me Season 2 Episode 3 - Cold Blooded Killers
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    S2:E3

    A 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.

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  12. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 3 - A Menace in My Own Backyard
    6.9/10(7 votes)

    S5:E3

    A 23-year-old athlete/construction worker suffers multiple grand mal seizures and high fevers from eastern equine encephalitis; a hard-edged tough guy suffers severe stomach pains and loss of appetite from accidentally swallowing a grill bristle; a 17-year-old cheerleader who recently got her driver's license suffers a swollen, itchy eye and excruciating eye pains from Acanthamoeba keratitis she got from contact lenses.

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  13. Monsters Inside Me Season 1 Episode 3 - Sex Maniacs
    7.3/10(18 votes)

    S1:E3

    Perfecting the art of reproduction have made parasites the most successful life form on the planet. There are some who are violent, manipulative and have taken sex to the extreme. These parasites are sex maniacs. A New Jersey woman finds her apartment infested with one of the most ubiquitous parasites on earth — bed bugs. Part of the reason for their success is the males' aggressive approach to sex, a method known as "traumatic insemination." A cyclist from Colorado discovers that the insect bites on his head are from botflies. In Oklahoma, a chemical sprayer's cough turns out to be the result of parasitic worms that multiply in the human lung.

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  14. Monsters Inside Me Season 1 Episode 2 - Outbreak
    7.3/10(17 votes)

    S1:E2

    Across the United States, doctors and scientists are fighting a war against some of nature's deadliest creatures — parasites. It is a race against time when a mysterious organism strikes a mid-western city causing the worst parasitic outbreak in the history of the United States. Before the culprit is contained, 100 innocent people have died. In Chicago, doctors must track down a hidden killer that attacks a group of students on a spring break trip, and a flesh-eating monster is on the loose in a Texas community.

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  15. Monsters Inside Me Season 1 Episode 1 - Sleeper Cells
    7.4/10(26 votes)

    S1:E1

    These killers lie dormant, waiting for the right time to strike. Eleven-month-old Garrett Richardson ingests the eggs of a worm, and within days the creature travels to his brain and goes about feeding on its tissue. A Vietnam veteran survived the enemy attacks on the front lines, but back at home — unknown to him — a killer is stealthily working its way through his body, laying waste to his organs and lymph system. By the time the medical evidence reveals the source many years later, the killer is long gone. And John Figge and many of his family members live for six years with unwanted hitchhikers from Africa traveling around in their bodies. Only when one of these creatures begins to attack John's brain are they discovered. Can the family get rid of these deadly parasites before the damage is critical? These are all stealthy predators that get inside their hosts, yet work on very different timetables. Dangerous and often hard to detect, this is the story of the war on sleeper cell parasites.

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  16. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 10 - I Smell Like Death
    7.0/10(7 votes)

    S5:E10

    A 29-year-old man gets tooth pain and almost dies of necrotizing fasciitis caused by the bacteria Streptococcus intermedius and Peptostreptococcus; a female financial adviser gets fatigue, joint pain, mental confusion, hair loss, and muscle weakness for over three years from Lyme disease; a 7-year-old boy gets a loss of appetite, abdominal pains, a fever, diarrhea, constant vomiting, and weight loss from Cryptosporidium.

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  17. Monsters Inside Me Season 7 Episode 5 - My Hands Are Falling Off
    7.2/10(6 votes)

    S7:E5

    A Canadian woman suffers a piercing pain in her throat and vomiting from accidentally swallowing a grill bristle (for which she thought was a sprig of rosemary) which got caught in her throat during a barbecue; an Arizona retired firefighter vacationing in Belize develops growing and eventually opening purple bumps on his limbs, lethargy, and hand pain from cutaneous leishmaniasis; a Nebraska 14-year-old girl is struck with swollen lymph nodes in her neck, dizziness, fatigue, blackouts, and body pain from Tularemia.

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  18. Monsters Inside Me Season 4 Episode 7 - Maggots Are Eating Me Alive
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    S4:E7

    A teenager caught in the 2011 Joplin tornado in Missouri is recovering in the hospital when he suddenly suffers from a life-threatening case of zygomycosis. A couple traveling who visited South Africa get maggots under their skin; a man suffers coughing fits, severe headaches, vertigo, and violent episodes (including chasing his son with a wrench and punching him in the face) before doctors discover the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans has infected his brain.

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  19. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 2 - West Nile Attack!
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    S5:E2

    A 6-year-old boy suffers a nasty cough, fever, and vomiting from valley fever; a newlywed husband becomes paralyzed from the waist down due to the West Nile virus; an international journalist suffers extreme stomach cramps, night sweats, chills, nausea, and fever from Entamoeba histolytica.

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  20. Monsters Inside Me Season 2 Episode 10 - Shape Shifters
    7.5/10(7 votes)

    S2:E10

    A 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.

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  21. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 4 - The Killer in the Lake
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    S5:E4

    A contractor gets hit in the head with a tool, and later starts getting a pounding headache, dizziness, spotty vision, and nausea from having a nail punctured into his brain; a football player in college gets extreme headaches, a stuffy nose, and blurred vision from Aspergillus fungi entering his brain; in 2012, an 8-year-old boy suffers constant vomiting, fatigue, seizures, and eventually dies from amoebic meningitis after being infected with Naegleria fowleri.

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  22. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 1 - My Daughter's Going Crazy
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    S5:E1

    A teenage girl begins having strange mood swings from anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis; an elderly mother gets chills, hand numbness, wrist pain, and oozing blisters from Vibrio vulnificus she got from being pricked by a crab while making a stew; an athletic military veteran from the Afghan war competing in reality shows returns home from Fiji feeling hotness, a pinching sensation in her arms and toes, and hallucinations from rat lungworm she got from eating a slug in a reality show in the jungle

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  23. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 5 - There's a Maggot Crawling in My What?
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    S5:E5

    A Canadian science-lover and traveler suffers a painful lesion caused by botfly larvae; a video game programmer gets suffers from constant vomiting and coughing. When doctors find a large mass in his chest, it is discovered that he has histoplasmosis, which was contracted from inhaling bat droppings in a cave; a 15-year-old girl gets an extremely sore throat, a headache, nausea, and body pains from Lemierre's syndrome.

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  24. Monsters Inside Me Season 2 Episode 1 - Suicide Attackers
    7.7/10(12 votes)

    S2:E1

    A 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.

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  25. Monsters Inside Me Season 5 Episode 8 - My Body Is Rotting
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    S5:E8

    A teenager gets coughing, shoulder pains, dizziness, and nausea from Cryptococcus gattii fungi invading her lungs; a saleswoman gets extreme pain in her breast from a brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) bite; a religious youth organizer gets swelling of multiple parts of the body over the course of three years from the Loa loa worm.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Feeding Frenzy" is the worst rated episode of Monsters Inside Me. It scored 5.9/10 from 12 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on June 16, 2010. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hijackers".

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