The Monsters inside of me.

The Monsters inside of me, is a Docu-medical show  on U.S "Animal Planet", mostly talking about Parasitical infection in Humans. I have the link for it on this blog .A very interesting website and a good show on television. It ought to win an Emmy, I think. Alot better than some of these Medical shows on regular network television. Animal Planet can keep this show, they also have some other good shows about our animal friends,but "M.I.O.M", has been getting off topic has they appeared run out of Parasites to report about and have resorted to talking about some bacterial infections.

The first show of the second season was alittle hard hitting, talking about a guy that caught the Bubonic Plague in Texas, U.S.A, they cured him of the disease but the Plague apparently is a hard hitting disease, he lost both of his legs.The Bacteria for the plague is endemic in parts of the U.S.

 Sometimes I'm ashamed to keep this link on my blog, after M.I.O.M reported on a little girl that died of Rabies, ( you don't have to die of rabies unless you catch it too late or if your poor; see Scientific American magazine).  I think in 9th episode of M.I.O.M, 2nd season, they finally covered a kid that died of a brain eating amoeba.  I once named this Blog, that title, but in meeting that kid on that episode and his parents, I sort of regret doing that. For that little kid, it was a horrible way to die. I even consider removing the link to that show here. That's why I'm writing this.

If there running out of topics to write about,they could consider reporting on "Ringworm", or for a slightly off-topic , but interesting Pfisteria, fish kills in eastern United states.

I told this to Dr.Mike. Mike Leahy, he calls himself a Virologist; he did a show on the "Travel Planet" called "Bite me". Poor Dr. Mike would go around the world looking for dangerous, lethal things. He did about 10 episodes before he got cancelled, but it was an interesting show . Highlights were his trip to India, and on another episode where he envenomated himself with a stinger of a "Sea Wasp"..one of the most toxic critters on that planet...you hear that animal Planet!

I wrote Dr. Mike once, he wrote me back, the response I post here.

Hi David

Thanks for your e-mail, your kind words about my show 'Bite Me', and 
your tips for future subject matter.

I guess you're probably e-mailing from the States where the show was 
aired on the 'Travel Channel'. I'm not sure what 'Travel's' plans are, 
but the show is broadcast to the rest of the world on National 
Geographic's network of channels, and I'm about to visit New Zealand 
(Bite Me is produced by a New Zealand company) to chat about the 
possibility of more shows for Nat Geo - maybe more episodes of 'Bite 
Me' maybe something slightly different, so watch this space!

The Ganges water really was that bad!

Thanks again

Best wishes

Mike