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 various parasitic, viral, bacterial, and fungal diseases.
Interviews with contributors are shot on location across North America.
Recreations are mostly filmed in hospitals and homes in New York City.
The series aired on Animal Planet in the US, and Discovery Science in Canada.A 13-year-old boy gets a cut on his leg that nearly leads to amputation when it becomes infected with Staphylococcus aureus, causing necrotizing fasciitis; a couple move into their new home, but over three years, the man suffers a spreading/oozing rash, poor coordination, body aches, breathing difficulties, and weight loss, while his girlfriend suffers memory loss, fatigue, and suicidal depression, both from chronic low grade carbon monoxide poisoning in the house; an 8-year-old girl from Hawaii gets a growing mass in her eyeball from Toxocara canis while playing in a garden.