On this episode of Monsters Inside Me: Extra Deadly, a man coughs up blood and find out a fluke infection means his lungs are being eaten. Chris Motsinger of Missouri reported severe cramps in his ...

Who among us leaves childhood without singing this ghoulish schoolyard refrain: "The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, in your stomach and out your mouth." The morbid yuck factor that makes that ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — Forget that drooling Xenomorph from Alien. We've got bigger troubles closer to home. It has been 30 years since that gooey extraterrestrial parasite first bedeviled Sigourney Weaver, but ...

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 ...